“Maybe a thousand dollars”

— Nancy Peters

Shawn Hubler, "At 50, City Lights illuminates the past", http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20030615/ai_n14549339 Oakland Tribune/Los Angeles Times on findarticles.com, 2003-06-15. : On City Lights' profits for the year.
2000s

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American writer and publisher 1936

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