[QUOTE=Robert Foster;8509710]How about Brentwood or Canoga Park?

Brentwood, a district in LA, has an LA city library branch not open on Sunday. No problem. Brentwood borders Westwood, separated by the 405, and UCLA in Westwood is a half mile east of the freeway. Hundreds of well-heeled UCLA students live in Brentwood, and many commute by bike. UCLA has world class libraries, including college (Powell) with over 6 million books, as well as biomedical and law, science and engineering and arts.

You can read to your heart's content, and buy a cheap photocopy card to xerox as much stuff to take home as you can carry out. Or watch classic (or modern) movies and TV shows (one of the largest archives on the planet), or listen to music of any genre. Open til MN Sundays. I've been there until closing time on more than a few occasions, despite having no affiliation. You can too.

This being said, Brentwood is within LA city limits. LA Central Library is open 1-5, but why drive that far (15 miles), unless you want to take books home?

Canoga Park too is a district of LA, not an independent city. LA Central is about 45 minutes by car, UCLA 30 minutes on Sunday afternoons. Or just go next door to Thousand Oaks' library, a 20 minute drive.

This thread is about bike shops. A lot of people don't mind driving 30 minutes to get to one, particularly in LA. A goodly number of LBSs in LA and OC are happy to service customers on Sundays, which is really nice. Others are closed, and nobody has any cause for complaint that their *nearest* one a mile from their home is one of these.

The needle about the library not being open Sunday 7:30 was an inane red herring. Nobody's wondering why LBSs can't be open at 7:30 Sunday evenings, are they?

Again, LBS owners can do whatever they want. It's a free country. Maybe the ones open on Sunday like the social engagement of weekend business. Others may not be enthralled dealing with newbies and leisure riders, the biggest category of Sunday customers, instead wanting to be racing their mates, and they may think they can't afford to have employees cover the shop in their absence. That's their prerogative.