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24. A Festival of Books
People joke that no one in Los Angeles
; everyone watches TV, rents videos, or goes to
movies. The most popular reading material is comic
, movie magazines, and TV guides. City libraries have
10 percent of the traffic that car washes
. But how do you explain this? An annual
festival in west Los Angeles is “sold out”
after year. People wait half an hour for
parking space to become available.
This outdoor festival,
by a newspaper, occurs every April for one
. This year’s attendance was estimated at 70,000 on
and 75,000 on Sunday. The festival featured 280
. There were about 90 talks given by authors,
an audience question-and-answer period following each talk. Autograph
sought out more than 150 authors. A food
sold all kinds of popular and ethnic foods,
American hamburgers to Hawaiian shave ice drinks. Except
a $7 parking fee, the festival was free.
so, some people avoided the food court prices
sneaking in their own sandwiches and drinks.
People
from all over California. One couple drove down
San Francisco. “This is our sixth year here
. We love it,” said the husband. “It’s just
to be in the great outdoors, to be
so many books and authors, and to get
very good deals, too.”
The idea for the
occurred years ago, but nobody knew if it
succeed. Although book festivals were already popular in
US cities, would Los Angeles residents embrace one? “
are very unpredictable,” said one of the festival
.
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