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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Yeah, but come on. 1986. Effectively B. Dalton was a B&N subsidiary since even my old self was a regular customer. Complaining about how B&N closed the smaller B. Daltons to replace them with the larger B&N stores just seems silly.
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I guess it depends on your age. I was 30 in 1986 and had been going regularly to bookstores from my early teens. So I remember home town book stores and B. Dalton, Waldenbooks and Pickwick in the malls, pre-B&N and Borders.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Yeah, I used to enjoy shopping at The Upstart Crow in Long Beach's Shoreline Village and Dodd's Bookshop. But really I had mostly stopped shopping at those places in favor of used bookshops and Super Crown well before B&N came along.
And if you listen to the news, indie bookshops are the new hotness. So give it a few minutes and one will be open in your neighborhood.
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When I lived in Ventura I used to haunt the used bookstores. They had two big ones downtown. Once or twice weekly I went to Bart's Books in Ojai. I loved that store. But I also went to Waldenbooks and/or B. Dalton fairly regularly. I think there was a new bookstore on Main Street in Ventura, but I don't remember going there much. I think they were kind of specialized, in specialties I didn't care about. But it's been a while, can't remember for sure.
When I lived in Washougal, I used to go down to Powell's Bookstore in Portland fairly regularly.