City Lights turns fifty on Columbus Avenue
MAY 08 2008
The bookstore's fiftieth-anniversary party on the corner of Columbus and Broadway, with Ferlinghetti talking about the early years and reading a poem to the crowd. The shop opened in 1953 with five hundred dollars each from Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin.
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