The story
The first all-paperback bookstore in America became ground zero for the Beat Generation and won a landmark obscenity case that changed free speech.
Everything that was here
- 1953–present · still open
City Lights BookstoreBookstore
The first all-paperback bookstore in America became ground zero for the Beat Generation and won a landmark obscenity case that changed free speech.
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