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Originally Posted by rcentros
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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Don't get me wrong. I remember them as well. My point was that they were subsidiaries of B&N and Borders and existed for years and years. They weren't 'run out of business' so much as they were replaced by larger versions of those same stores.
Locally, B&N opened a megastore at the mall, but Waldenbooks maintained a very large store too. Eventually it closed and people blamed B&N but the truth was it closed when Borders opened their own megastore across the street from the mall.
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When I lived in Washougal, I used to go down to Powell's Bookstore in Portland fairly regularly.
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I went to visit my niece in Portland and went to Powell's and I guess this is something ebooks took away from me. I enjoyed walking around Powell's. It was a great store. But I knew I wouldn't be buying anything. It was a little like going to a store a friend is interested in and you are not. Like if I went to a baseball card store. It might be neat to look around. But there wasn't anything there for me.
The display I spent the most time on was the Timbuk2 bags.