![]() ![]() Hundreds of thousands more were damaged, by the fire and by the water used to fight it. Four hundred thousand books were destroyed. ![]() On April 29, 1986, this dignified and eccentric building in the center of downtown burned for over seven hours. At the LA Central branch, fire alarms trigger deep memory. We were supposed to meet in the rare books room, but as I was setting up and Orlean was arriving from her son’s dentist appointment, somebody pulled the fire alarm. Susan Orlean stood in a crowd facing the Los Angeles Central Library. ![]()
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