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Don't see this every day

LA garage door painted to look like bookshelves

By Kevin Roderick | August 20, 2012 6:11 PM

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Author Robert Crais posts on Facebook: "Another reason I love LA is because people like this live here. They painted their garage door to look like book shelves." Crais, by the way, discussed Los Angeles as a "natural canvas" for mysteries with Karen Grigsby Bates today on NPR's Morning Edition.


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