Book Circle MD2025 climbing a narrow 40-foot ladder

climbing a narrow 40-foot ladder in order to maintain the floodlights that light the torch

and later still

This photo ran on the front page of The Times the next day with the headline

His earnings for the day

Book Circle MD2025 climbing a narrow 40-foot ladderBooks, books and more books are the center of attention at this gravity defying shop in Downtown Los Angeles, where 250,000 tomes literally form walls, windows and archways. All bookstores are a refuge for solitary or introspective, but this one seems to have its own place in history with catacombs, vaults and catwalks surrounded by books every step of the way. The Last Bookstore is California's largest used and new book and record store. "In recent