Redondo Library Not So Venerable
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It is great news that Redondo Beach has voted to build a new library (Times, Oct. 4). Three points in the Oct. 4 article remain to be quibbled at. First, the main library has not shut down. Next, the main library is not venerable. It is 60 years old. I ought to know, since I was at the dedication as a glum 12-year-old. “Venerable,” forsooth.
Finally, the main library was never a sailors’ reading room. After commercial operations on Pier No. 3 were stopped in 1926, and ships no longer unloaded there, the sailors disappeared.
Then, in 1930 we built a new, up-to-date library in the City Park (now Veterans Park), spacious for a town of 9,500 people. The architect had planned for expansion space suitable for a city of 20,000. That was then. Now, we need a new building; that the city acknowledged the fact is wonderful. Hurrah! (What is Redondo now: 65,000?).
GEORGIA CATEY PETRIE, Redondo Beach
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