Gadling reports that one of my favorite small businesses from my hometown is closing its doors at the end of May. Everything is 20 percent off until then. Although I only went in there a few times, they always had what I wanted and were helpful and friendly. I bought my Melbourne Lonely Planet there in 2002. I’ll be sure to stop in when I’m home next month.
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I concur. For any trip my wife and I were planning the California Map & Travel Center was always one of the first stops. It’s like losing a close, personal friend.
i just learned that the store has closed!
do you know if they live on in another incarnation? (store name, location, bought out by someone else?) – any suggestions of where one might go now in So. Cal. for the same selection of travel essentials??
I as well just learned that the store had closed. Earlier this year we had bought maps for a July trip and had no inkling that anything was amiss.
In the cosmic scheme of things, I suppose it means little but right now there’s a hole in my life. It was a great store with great people.
Sorry to learn of another independent store closing. I had planned to shop there on my next visit to L.A. This resource for maps and travel info will be missed. Here in Austin Texas where I live, after moving from L.A. a few years ago, we are trying passionately not to lose our local independent businesses. It will be a sorry state in the future if we only have the limited choices offered by the big corporate bookstore chains and their sort. Those stores only carry the items they can sell the most of per square foot of space. Retail chains are dictated to by their stockholders not necessarily the customer.
Now, where will I find that map of outer Mongolia for my next vacation ?
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