That is a cool anecdote Roger... and I thank you for your own
moving-book-sale when you left Santa Fe (10 years ago now???) and
I picked up a boxfull of books I didn't need (but really
appreciated anyway).
Did anyone (else) visit McMurtry's "bookstore town" in Archer
City TX? I've been there several times, the first while he was
standing it up (1998?) and then when he was shrinking it back to a
few buildings 2012?. At it's heydey I remember it being at least
a half-dozen old mainstreet shopfronts filled to the gills with
books he was collecting by auction from other bookstores closing
down at the time. When I was there the first couple of times,
the secondary and tertiary buildings were not even manned, it was
on the honor system to browse the town and bring your finds to the
main building where they would price them and send you on your way
with a smile. Larry himself was usually in the building, had an
affect that he was not interested in being engaged by fans (of
which I am only slightly anyway) but would jump right in if there
was a legitimate question about a book or a pricing ambiguity.
The website very much understates their rich history. I visited
the Georgetown "original" a few times in the 90s... but was
underwhelmed (a tiny garret upstairs, almost unmarked).
Archer City was Larry's hometown and the setting of a number of contemporary (not old west) novels, including the most famous made-into-a-movie "The Last Picture Show" where Jeff Bridges and Cybil Sheppard pretty much got their start in acting as teenage hearthrobs in a dying Texas Oil Town in the 60's.
Tying back to your own (Jochen) German roots, I highly recommend his memoiresque book: Walter_Benjamin_at_the_Dairy_Queen
- Steve
I first visited Powell's the summer they opened in Portland. Old man Powell gave me work cleaning up another property he owned.
Their current location was long notable for the regularly scheduled reek of the Blitz-Weinhard brewery located on the block to the west, but it's since been gentrified.
The original Powell's is in Hyde Park, near the University of Chicago, it was a let down when I finally got there.
But The Seminary Coop, https://www.semcoop.com/, is a must visit in Chicago. Check out the Front Table on their website.
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On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 10:24 AM ⛧ glen <[hidden email]> wrote:
They might. But I'm spending a good portion of my income at the local ones. If you're visiting book stores, you must visit this one. A whole city block, multiple floors:
https://www.powells.com/
And stop using Amazon. 8^D
On September 5, 2020 6:53:38 AM PDT, Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>Do you think bookstores may die out? They have become rare here in
>Europe. In L.A. there is a nice used bookstore named "The Last
>Bookstore"http://lastbookstorela.comWhen Biden has won and Covid is
>gone next year I would like to visit California, including L.A. and San
>Francisco, before the last bookstore is gone.-J.
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glen ⛧
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