City Lights Bookstore

"Shocks, transformations, even workers who take you aback more than once in a single evening are what makes City Lights as great a sight, as well as a call to new thinking, as the constantly shifting metropolis around it. San Francisco can be hard to take in all at once; its epicenter and symbol — City Lights — can be the perfect way to imbibe the local spirit in a single evening. At the entrance to the fiction room, some wise soul has scribbled, perfectly, "Abandon All Despair, Ye Who Enter Here."

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-san-francisco-city-lights-bookstore-20140323,0,1310783.story#ixzz2wydhB4zf