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OmSigDavid and I invested in a small tangent to Dlowan's visit to New York thread. I snapped at him about Barnes and Noble (which I actually have liked) that I didn't consider that a real book store.

He asked me, reasonably, what places I did count.

I named a few, including some libraries, dumb of me, except that some famous libraries probably have bookstores now. That was all off the top of my head as I usually post.

As it happens, I'm cleaning out stuff and sometimes that is harder than others.
I've saved a bunch of business cards over the years, from friends and family and business associates, even my own, or just because I liked the cards. Culling them, a bit of a pain.

But, it turns out that I have some business cards from bookstores.

I'll list them and add at the end the places I mentioned on the other thread, and a few more I've thought of that I don't have cards from.
Please add your own favorite bookstores, or add your own favorite business cards.

Next post for that, though.

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So, some cards - many are likely obsolete

geographia
map & travel - book store
4000 Riverside Drive
Toluca Lake
Burbank, CA 91505
with the phone number.
This was a place close to my heart.

Publication Service
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565
Book Information (phone number)
Mail Orders (phone number)
Credit Card Orders (phone number)
hours

Marlow's Bookshop
(back issue magazines and search service)
That's the place, the one where you passed porn or porn like to go find the restroom.
I got some wonderful books from there. Some golden oldies and some pulp fiction from the forties.
address, hours
address (Santa Monica), phone, hours

V L T Gardner Books
tree drawing
Botany
Horticulture
Garden History
Garden Design
Landscape Architecture
address (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA), phone, by appointment

That's a start, I have a bunch more cards.

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@ossobuco,

Wilshire Books
Bought and Sold
address (Santa Monica, CA), hours, owner name

That was a place that sold books somehow allied with Bekins Storage.
Figure non payment. I was only there once, I think.

BNi
Building News
Publishers and Booksellers to the Construction Industry.
address, phone, fax, Los Angeles 90034.
Long gone, but the place to find what you needed.
Right off the freeway, useful books.

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@ossobuco,

Last but not least on the cards, Hennessey + Ingalls
art + architecture
books

(address, i.e., 3rd st. promenade in Santa Monica and phone)
I spent too much there. The books in the back, the more battered ones, could be more interesting.

Hmm, the card says they buy collections. I may have to inquire.

Back with bookstores I don't have a card from, though in one case a tee shirt.

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I bought a book from Amy's Bookcase in Farmington. Later, I discovered a bookmark from Freddy's Read and Feed in Missoula, MT, with a representation of the famous detective pig, magnifying glass in hand. If I'm ever in Missoula, I will check it out.

Oddly, two weeks ago the library was having a discard sale and I discovered a Freddy book, which I bought. Freddy was lead detective in a children's detective series.

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@roger,

When we visited you in Farmington, we went, as we drove out of town, to a bookstore place that, if I remember, served coffee. This is a little vaporous in memory, but I do remember (sorry) that the store was not very interesting. Probably not Amy's (and I remember Amy helping you back after the bicycle whackeroo).

So, then, they start children on police procedurals early. I say this as an addict.
Nancy Drew sucked me in, back in the day (what was I thinking?)

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@ossobuco,

That would have something like Anna Karena's. I was there once, too. Okay coffee, and way overpriced pastries. Not much in the way of books. The name came from the first names of two separate Navajo women the owner happened to admire.

As you say, the store is not very interesting.

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@roger,

So tell us more about Amy's, if that is not invasive..

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@ossobuco,

Big jumble of books. You would love it.

Unlike the library where all fiction is alphbetized, it is divided by mysteries, military, etc. Also, they somehow manage to make a distinction between literature and books. A section of travel books, a section for crafts, and a room full of romance novels they don't know what to do with. Every once in awhile, there is something totally misclassified. It's kind of fun.

As you mentioned, I asked Amy to put together a collection of books for me when I couldn't walk. She did, and wouldn't take payment from the friend who picked up the sack full of books for me.

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@roger,

So I love Amy, not that she would want that. She'd probably want to smack me.

I have some other places to mention, but not this evening.

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@ossobuco,

I doubt Amy is even violent in her dreams.

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Business cards are the important thing that conveys all basic information about an individual business person and his or her business. People should choose the right business card pattern to impress other clients.

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