[FRIAM] The last bookstore

[Steve Smith]

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).

https://www.bookedupac.com/

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
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52226.Walter_Benjamin_at_the_Dairy_Queen>

- Steve

On 9/5/20 9:13 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> 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.
>
> -- rec --
>
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 10:24 AM ⛧ glen <gepropella at gmail.com
> <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> 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
>     <jofr at cas-group.net <mailto:jofr at cas-group.net>> 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.
>
>     -- 
>     glen ⛧
>
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