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Transcript: Profile: North Beach bookstore City Lights to be named an historic landmark in San Francisco
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- August 10, 2000
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Profile: North Beach bookstore City Lights to be named an historic
landmark in San Francisco
Host: NOAH ADAMS, LINDA WERTHEIMER
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
NOAH ADAMS, host:
It's NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Noah Adams.
LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:
And I'm Linda Wertheimer.
For almost half a century, City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco'
s North Beach neighborhood has been a literary landmark. Now the
city may make it official. San Francisco's Landmark Preservation
Board(ph) has recommended the bookstore as an historic landmark.
The decision is a tribute to City Lights' importance as a center of
beat culture and a recognition of City Lights' ...