{"id":845,"date":"2011-06-06T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/06\/downtown-la-bookstore-for-sale.html"},"modified":"2011-06-06T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T15:15:00","slug":"downtown-la-bookstore-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/06\/downtown-la-bookstore-for-sale.html","title":{"rendered":"Downtown LA Bookstore for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUST shy of five years ago, I went to visit a sharp new bookstore in downtown Los Angeles. It arrived at a time when downtown, and particularly the Old Bank district, seemed to be sparking: Pete&#8217;s had opened recently, and a video store and (if memory serves) good new Vietnamese place were a few steps away.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-T3zigoCUk_E\/Te0VbnTQiHI\/AAAAAAAABIY\/3GbCGEfv9hs\/s1600\/Metropolisposter.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-T3zigoCUk_E\/Te0VbnTQiHI\/AAAAAAAABIY\/3GbCGEfv9hs\/s400\/Metropolisposter.jpg\" width=\"180\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The sudden appearance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolisbooksla.com\/\">Metropolis Books<\/a> startled so many locals that some thought it was a movie set.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The shop&#8217;s owner seemed very sincere about the endeavor, and the stock was on the small side, but well put together. I think I bought my beloved copy of David Mitchell&#8217;s <i>Cloud Atlas<\/i> that day and still have the store&#8217;s bookmark.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2006\/dec\/18\/entertainment\/et-metropolis18\">Here<\/a> is the 2006 LA Times story I wrote on the place and its hopeful future.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Well, all good things come to an end, and bookstores in Southern California have been ending a lot recently. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2011\/06\/metropolis_books_in_downt.php\">LA Observed<\/a>\u00a0reports today that the place is for sale.<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Sigh<\/i>.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUST shy of five years ago, I went to visit a sharp new bookstore in downtown Los Angeles. It arrived at a time when downtown, and particularly the Old Bank district, seemed to be sparking: Pete&#8217;s had opened recently, and a video store and (if memory serves) good new Vietnamese place were a few steps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34,30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-literary","8":"category-los-angeles","9":"category-west-coast","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}