A Video Tour of Hollywood’s Last Big General Book Shop

Eli Goodman’s Cosmopolitan Book Shop Was The Last Big General Book Shop in Hollywood.  Some Final Thoughts and a Short Video Tour Before it Was Closed

Posted by Paul Hunt

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Click on the box above to see what a really old bookshop looks like.  I did this short film just a few days before the end.  Eli was already under full time care and hadn’t been in the shop for three or four years.

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Eli Goodman

Below are a series of Advertisements that Eli Ran in a local paper.

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2 of our best customers park their rigs at our front door.

2 of our best customers park their rigs at our front door.