9 shops · 6 districts
The Record & Book Edit.
Nine shops for bookshops and record stores worth an afternoon, across 6 parts of SD: La Jolla, North Park, Coronado, Ocean Beach and more. Picked from the 224 shops we list, one location each.
- 1Books · La JollaWarwick'sFamily-owned bookstore founded in 1896, in La Jolla since 1939 and on Girard since 1952, with a large stationery, pen, art-supply and gift section and
- 2Books · North ParkVerbatim BooksUsed and antiquarian bookstore with over 60,000 titles plus new releases, local zines, tarot decks and art prints; it buys and trades books Mondays and Fridays 11am–4pm.
- 3Records & music · North ParkRed Brontosaurus RecordsRecord store for new punk, pop-punk, hardcore and indie vinyl plus classic rock, with retro video games and consoles from Atari to PS4 and used Blu-rays and anime.
- 4Books · CoronadoBay BooksIndependent bookstore with new releases and classics, a large children's section, a military history section, stationery and gifts, and one of Souther
- 5Records & music · Ocean BeachCow RecordsUsed and new vinyl and CDs on Newport Ave, one of the long-running record shops on the Ocean Beach strip.
- 6Books · HillcrestBluestocking BooksUsed bookshop selling since 1967, mostly secondhand titles plus select new books, special orders of out-of-print books, vintage pulps, antique ephemer
- 7Records & music · HillcrestTAANG! Record StoreRecord store tied to the TAANG!
- 8Books · HillcrestFootnote BooksUsed and rare bookstore buying and selling since 1989, with floor-to-ceiling shelves and a well-known wall of crime fiction; much of the stock is not listed online.
- 9Records & music · Liberty StationMo RecordsVinyl record stall at Booth 38 inside Liberty Public Market, open four days a week; it marked its first anniversary with a sale at the market.
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