The patio at Vroman’s Bookstore, 60 E. Colorado Street, Pasadena, California, Spring 1923, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Vroman’s Bookstore was founded in 1894 by Adam Clark Vroman and is still a Pasadena cultural institution, with three locations in the city.
However, the little patio above, with its fig tree and fountain, no longer exists. Vroman’s moved to 695 E. Colorado Street in 1929.
Johnston used this image in her garden and historic house lectures.
very cosy !
I would love to find a bookstore with such a pretty outside space.
so do I, it just needs a comfy chair so you can sit under the fig tree and read your book !!!!