City Lights (San Francisco)

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San Francisco, CA. One of the pieces of North Beach that never changes. Home of the Beats. I remember my dad pointing out Lawrence Ferlinghetti to me here, and at Caffe Trieste, when I was a kid. UGH I love bookstores.

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Lida Richardson

@lidarichardsonJul 5, 2026

It’s the best place in the world. And you’re right that it’s one of the things there that never changes (🤞🤞🤞)

Noelle

@noelleJul 5, 2026

🙏🙏🤞🤞🤞🙏🙏

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

Lida Richardson

“One of the literal best places on earth. Go sit in the poetry chair right now!”

sunset strip mall

“of course! a classic! city lights is one of those old hallowed bookstores that just has a certain kind of aura you feel excited... maybe a little awed... to be in, like getting to reach back in time to a city's venerated past (it feels a little like Paris's Shakespeare & Company in that way, City Lights' beat poets and pre-gentrification SF equivalent to Paris's Hemingway and Fitzgerald). sometime”