As indie bookstores in Los Angeles have shuttered retail operations following Mayor Eric Garcetti's order to close non-essential businesses, Hollywood Boulevard's Larry Edmunds Bookshop is reaching out to the public for help.
Jeffrey Mantor, proprietor of the bookshop, on Wednesday announced that he has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help, revealing that customer orders online are "not enough to keep the store going. "We are not meeting our basic operating expenses and I'm worried we won't be able to hang on," he wrote on the fundraiser's page.
Prior to asking for donations, Mantor detailed his origins with the store founded in 1938 and debuting on Hollywood Boulevard in 1950.