City Lights Booksellers
City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.Photo: Angler45, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours: noon—8:00 PM
- Email: staff@citylights.com
- Type: Bookstore
- Description: bookstore and publisher in San Francisco
- Also known as: “City Lights Books”, “City Lights Booksellers & Publishers”, “City Lights Bookstore”, and “City Lights Publishers”
- Address: 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Transamerica Pyramid and Great Star Theater.
Transamerica Pyramid
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline. Transamerica Pyramid is situated 1,400 feet southeast of City Lights Booksellers.
Great Star Theater
Theater building
The Great Star Theater, formerly known as Great China Theater, is a 410-seat theater located at 636 Jackson Street in San Francisco's Chinatown. It was built in 1925 for the Chinese opera and is the last Chinese theater in any Chinatown in the United States. Great Star Theater is situated 510 feet southeast of City Lights Booksellers.
Beat Museum
Museum
Photo: BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Beat Museum is located in San Francisco, California and is dedicated to preserving the memory and works of the Beat Generation. The Beat Generation was a group of post-WWII artists who challenged the social norms of the 1950s, encouraged experimentation with drugs and sexuality, practiced various types of Eastern religion, and desired to grow as humans.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chinatown-North Beach and Chinatown.
Chinatown-North Beach
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chinatown-North Beach in San Francisco combines two adjoining neighborhoods that are culturally, politically, and aesthetically distinct, while geographically blending into each other.
Chinatown
Quarter
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Chinatown, centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and is one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia.
Telegraph Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Matt314, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Telegraph Hill is a hill and surrounding neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills". The iconic Coit Tower stands at the apex of Telegraph Hill.
City Lights Booksellers
- Categories: book publisher, building, tourism, shop, and tourist attraction
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.79764° or 37° 47′ 52″ northLongitude
-122.40657° or 122° 24′ 24″ westHeight
30 feet (9 metres)Open location code
849VQHXV+39OpenStreetMap ID
way 32858754OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
shop=booksOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedWikidata ID
Q2394278
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“City Lights Booksellers” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “城市之光書店”
- Danish: “City Lights Bookstore”
- Dutch: “City Lights Bookstore”
- Finnish: “City Lights”
- French: “City Lights Books”
- French: “City Lights Booksellers & Publishers”
- French: “City Lights Bookstore”
- French: “librairie City Lights”
- French: “maison d’édition City Lights”
- German: “City Lights Booksellers & Publishers”
- German: “City Lights Bookstore”
- Italian: “City Light Books”
- Italian: “City Lights Bookstore”
- Japanese: “シティライツ書店”
- Latin: “City Lights Bookstore”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “City Lights Bookstore”
- Norwegian: “City Lights Bookstore”
- Spanish: “City Lights Booksellers & Publishers”
- Spanish: “City Lights Bookstore”
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Highlights include Vesuvio Cafe and Sheila Kelly S Factor.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Columbus Avenue & Broadway and Taxi Stand at Columbus Ave at Broadway (SW Corner, in front of City Lights Book).
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