Longbeach Erases Itself

[Autojones]

Wrong Beach gets rid of a great eclectic book store to replace it with a mini mall/ commercial property, Which are all dying right now, ..so great time to build one.

..real great insight.

Put your faith in something truly certain,....like mankind's stupidity

[marquisdejolie]

@Autojones

Hahaha! Well said!

[Skysport22]

Long live the memory of AOB...

[marquisdejolie]

Amen. I did what I could.

:)

[brynn3899]

The Place of My Youth, 14 years I worked for ACRES....

[marquisdejolie]

Wow! What's there now?

[fehquig]

Bring out the hose and the gasoline...

[marquisdejolie]

Bookburning?

[fehquig]

Fahrenheit 451. My Fave Bradbury novel...

[marquisdejolie]

I met him on this trip, ya know. He's pretty old now....wheelchair bound.

[fehquig]

I first read his work thirty-something years ago, and he wasn't exactly young then...

[ButterRivaLs]

That's really sad. So, Long Beach says bye bye to history so it can get paid (more tax dollars). Gee, cities could get rich doing this...

[BuelahMan]

Such is life.

Tear down the old to build the new.

Nothing changes, except for everything.

[f3xpgm]

I would prefer a small area where i could buy the coffee and get in adventure searching something awesome between those shelfs!

[twister7boy]

the nerve of some people. and i supose there was nowhere else to put this place up? peace. gregg

[marquisdejolie]

The building itself is the landmark.

[blackturtleus]

The crimes allowed by our legal system are often quite outrageous... and then their are the perfectly harmless activities that are considered illegal... Sometimes all you can do is shake your head and wonder!

[marquisdejolie]

There's a leak,

there's a leak in the boiler room

The poor, the lame, the blind

Who are the ones that we kept in charge?

Killers, thieves and lawyers

--Tom Waits

[OhCurt]

This is one of my biggest gripes about Las Vegas - they have no appreciation for their own history.

Public domain is definitely being abused here.

[marquisdejolie]

Well, I just thank goodness I live on an out-of-the-way worthless piece of land no land developer wants.

[chevkoch]

The city erases itself. Well put, indeed. It's happening all over. Great video.

[marquisdejolie]

Thanks

:)

[ChristopherMast]

Imminent domain laws fucking SUCK DICK

[marquisdejolie]

gimme a Winchester rifle and a whole box of shells

blow the roof off the goat barn

let it roll down the hill

the piano is firewood

times square is a dream

I find we'll lay down together in the cold cold ground

--Tom Waits

[edenbainbridge]

our beloved ringling towers was torn down for the same fucking reason. just so we could have more rich ass tourist come and stay in a luxury hotel...

[marquisdejolie]

What were the Ringling Towers?

[hallbe]

Nice one...very sad though. Poland and Italy seem to appreciate too!

[marquisdejolie]

Yay, Poland and Italy!

[ravensky23]

When I was a child I was in that bookstore, I remember it well. My aunt and uncle lived in Manhattan Beach and we used to visit every summer. The books I bought there kept me from having a boring summer with the 'adults'. Also as a child I had delusions that with all of history written in books we would get smarter and not make the same mistakes over again. Then I read Fahrenheit 451 and realized it only takes one generation to erase the past. Shame on Long Beach, Eminent Domain pimps.

[marquisdejolie]

One generation. That's all it takes.

[MadBadVoodo]

Great Five Star Vid!

[marquisdejolie]

Thanks!

:)

[EmCSpiteri]

The historical old is making room for the new. How sad.

[marquisdejolie]

It is. How am I going to be able to find my way around Longbeach when I go visit if all my landmarks are gone? I'll be lost.

[JimmerSD]

Eminent domain condemnation for commercial development is facist and should be unconstitutional.

[marquisdejolie]

It is and it should, but I think the generation just coming out of high school is warming up to fascism.

[marquisdejolie]

Well, it could be worse. They could be coming after MY shack!

[farnk]

I'm sure the new mall will have oneuddem chain book shoppes with the $4 coffee all in one. Classic new outro...I like!

[marquisdejolie]

Yeah, but the bookstore will carry only "best sellers" less than a year old. No hidden treasures or wisdom from the past.

:(

[marquisdejolie]

You like that outro? Thanks. I'm going to be experimenting with outros for a while.

:)

[katalina2007]

OH NO! I shall pass this along to my dad--a RETIRED Public Librarian for the City of Torrance Public Library for 25 yrs--He will be SO sad. He REALLY like Ray Bradbury, too!

[marquisdejolie]

I met Ray once at his theater in Pasadena.