Books and books about books, publishing books, buying books, selling books, collecting books, trading books, reading books, sharing books, talking about books.
Music
Local Long Beach musicians and bands, mostly. Codpiece, The Blue Fix, Big Harmonica Bob, Mike Watt, PreCoital Yodel, Fossil Face, The Paper Planes, Pulsator, The Atmo Project, Disband, Michael Ubaldini, Tex Beaumont, Suburban Lawns, Alley Cats, The Plugz, Echo Greywolf, The Santiago Steps, The Grievous Angels, Sticky Children, Family Tree, June Madrona, Mini Love.
Television
Read more, watch less. Watch this:
Books
About 1,000,000,000 (One MILLION!) books on all subjects on 6.5 miles of shelf space. Poetry, novels, memoirs, letters, essays, monographs, plays, histories, biographies, manuals, dictionaries, diaries, almanacs, folios, quartos, catalogs, handbooks, directories, yearbooks, atlases, prayer books, hymnals, ledgers, logbooks, field guides, abstracts, manuscripts, codices, albums, Bibles, music scores, screenplays, commentaries, anthologies, paperbacks, graphic novels, art books, cook books, travel guides, pop-up books.
Upton Sinclair, James Hilton, Gary Owens, Robert Easton, Stan Freberg, Greg Bear, Tim Powers, Fran Lebowitz, Michael Chabon, Bertrand Smith, Gene Smith, Frank Cotton, Jackie and Phil Smith and all our loyal customers, past, present and future.
Acres of Books's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking, Serious Relationships, Friends
Hometown:
Cincinnati, OH
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
Smoke / Drink:
No / No
Acres of Books's Companies
Bertrand (Legendary Founder) Smith's Acres of Books Long Beach, CA US
Acres of Books has disappeared into history...forever Posted at 1:08 AM Jul 28 view more
About me: Located at 240 Long Beach Blvd, in the heart of the LBC. We were founded in 1934 by Bertram Smith. We had in stock around one million books on every subject known to man or woman.
Mr. Bertrand Smith 1874-1965, the founder of Acres of Books, was an established book dealer in Cincinnati, Ohio, when he came out west to start a new bookshop at 140 Pacific Ave. in Long Beach in 1934. We moved to our current location at 240 Long Beach Blvd. in 1960.
Mr. Smith went to England over the years on regular book buying trips. He became a familiar face in the many bookshops of London's Charing Cross Road and came home with wonderful treasures for the book lovers of Southern California.
In 1990 Acres of Books was designated a cultural heritage landmark by the City of Long Beach.
We were in our third generation of family ownership and have grown to over 1 million books in stock, making us the largest used bookshop in California and a destination for book lovers from around the World.
We are currently closed forever...thank you for your support...
Who I'd like to meet: Bibliophiles and book lovers, readers, writers,historians, poets, artists and musicians...and everyone else. If you haven't been in you need to come visit us soon.
So I'm going to borrow this comment box to ask for donations. I'm shaving my head for charity on March 15th at Recreation Park and I need donations! ANything will do, 5, 10, 25, no donation is to small (or too big!!!) so if anyone who reads this can, please visit my St. Baldricks page and give a little to kids and families in need! http://www. stbaldricks. org/participants/shavee_info. php?ParticipantKey=2009-334254#;
SAVE Cable Access TV! Subscribe to LBweekly. com to be notified of the date LBCTproducers and Superlawyer Marc A. Coleman will need to present at City Hall to claim our First Amendment Rights! Meanwhile enjoy one of the very last "Stop and Smell the Roses" LBCTelevision Show segments with Marie-Jo Machefert at ACRES OF BOOKS!
Hi Hi Hi-
We're gonna be in town playing a bunch of new tunes at Alex's Bar tomorrow night & hope you can come help us make it a filthy-fun evening to remember. More bodies More energy More LUV. Rock on.
Peace...
Obedient Waves
p.s. Have a LiSTEN... we just put our new EP, "WE NEVER LiKED YOU ANYWAY" up last night.
GANGI w/ DAEDELUS + BLANK BLUE + THE GASLAMP KILLER
SPACELAND, THURS. JAN 8th, 2009. doors at 8pm.
the long beach heads will be in the house.
