Oh, Look!

Hah! Per Franklin Avenue, the Westwood Borders is already history. (A couple of items down we were sorry it wasn't on the list of closings. Little did we know it had already ceased to exist.)

We're sorry for the saps who had been enslaved there when we began our servitude in 1998 & were still slaving away there almost three yrs. ago, when we would spend evenings there catching up on our reading before retiring to our bunk under the playground equipment in the nearby park. However, no sympathy for the two managers who were still oppressing the workers there three yrs. ago. Hope both of them are on the streets begging or worse as we type.

After typing all that, we looked it up. Two of the saps we mentioned are name-checked in the blurb below. Guess they stuck it out to the bitter end.

A Message from Carlos Casanova, General Manager

Welcome to Borders Westwood, located in the heart of West Los Angeles near UCLA. We are one of the largest Borders locations in Southern California and offer a spacious, bright shopping environment with our own underground parking garage* (parking validated with purchase). Come visit our store and talk to Gene about classical music or ask Daniel to help you find that obscure title you have been trying to remember for years. Check out the event area on our second floor and ask for a copy of our event schedule--we have hosted events in the past with presidents, Beatles, supermodels and yes, even writers! Our local interest section on the first floor features great local art and architecture books as well as local history and things to do around town.

Almost sad, innit? Yet our heart is strangely warm. Indigestion?

*Two of the lower circles of hell: Cruddy ventilation, constantly humid & reeked of automobile emissions.