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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
General question: why did Crown Books close?
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The acrimonious Haft divorce case.
If you lived in the DC area in the mid-90s, you had to be living under a rock to miss that. Very rarely do divorces of people in their 70s play out so dramatically, especially when their son got caught in the crossfire and fired back. The aftershocks left their discount empire (Crown Books, Trak Auto) in shambles. Watching that go down was better than a soap opera, until Crown Books went out of business (but then, Borders and B&N were right there waiting to catch us, weren't they?).