![]() ![]() His is one of the last businesses still left from the old Golden Mall in Burbank, the city’s first pedestrian mall opened in the ‘60s. The owner, Steve Edrington, has been in business for 51 years and just says it’s time. The Book Castle-Movie World bookstore on the old Golden Mall in Burbank will soon close its doors forever. It’s all been digitalized and readily available online for free. Now, he’s “hunkered down,” he says, in his last and final store, Book Castle-Movie World, right next door to that old Woolworth’s where all the movie studios in town would come to him for research material. ![]() That little bookstore in Hollywood he owned for 13 years, Bond Street Books, led to a bigger one in Burbank, where he leased 11,000 square feet in an old Woolworth’s building on San Fernando Boulevard - watching his Book City business grow to five bookstores in the area during the heyday of ink, paper, and full sentences. I’ve made that money back many times over.” “Well, I thought I’d try it for a month or two, and here I am 51 years later. “They said put the books in there, and in a couple of months I’d make my money back three times over. “They had a garage filled with books they weren’t selling in their inventory, and they’d rented me an empty store down the block on Wilcox Avenue,” Steve says. The Book Castle-Movie World bookstore on the old Golden Mall in Burbank will soon close its doors. They promised to pay him back with interest when he returned, but two years later Steve returned to find his money spent, but an interesting opportunity at hand. Off he went to serve his country, but before he left he loaned two friends a fair bit of cash to help them open a book store in Hollywood. He’s a free spirit who got into the business by accident after the Army sent him an invitation in 1964 he couldn’t refuse. ![]()
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