San Francisco man returns Bob Dylan album to Ohio library – 48 years late
For 48 years, however, a library in Ohio was more concerned with where. Then a man living in San Francisco mailed back a copy of the widely misunderstood record, nearly half a century after it was supposed to be returned. Howard Simon sent the album along with a letter to Heights Libraries apologizing for his tardiness, according to a news release from the library system outside Cleveland. Simon checked out the album in 1973, when he was an eighth-grader at a University Heights middle school. He says he found the double vinyl record between two other Dylan albums in his personal collection.