A tote bag from the celebrated City Lights bookstore.  It is filled with items from the store including:

• A tote bag printed with "City Lights 70th Anniversary 1953-2023"


• An Architecture book, Everything is its Own Reward by Paul Madonna. 


• a T-shirt,


• a hat,


• a bumper sticker


• etc

Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, City Lights is one of the few truly great independent bookstores in the United States, a place where booklovers from across the country and around the world come to browse, read, and just soak in the ambiance of alternative culture’s only “Literary Landmark.” Although it has been more than sixty years since tour buses with passengers eager to sight “beatniks” began pulling up in front of City Lights, the Beats’ legacy of anti-authoritarian politics and unconstrained intellectual curiosity continues to be a strong influence in the store, most evident in the selection of titles.

The City Lights masthead says “a literary meetingplace since 1953,” and this concept includes publishing books as well as selling them.