(via Bookstore Tourism Blog) Apparently the Berkeley Telegraph Avenue branch of Cody's is closing. This NPR story has more. It's always sad to see a venerable bookstore go, but this one makes me personally sad as well. I used to live in Oakland, and a trip up to Telegraph to visit Amoeba records, Shakepeare and Co, Moe's and Cody's was a regular occurence. All is not lost, Cody's continues to exist in a new Berkeley location and down in San Francisco. I rather like this person's eulogy for the store.
This is one another famed but now gone bookstore that Steve and I visited together. Another is Ave Victor Hugo in Boston, where I believe Steve found his first Dorothy Dunnett. That may have been Walden Pond Books.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Bummer news for bibliophiles
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It sad when a beloved bookstore like Cody closes, but there'll always be bookstores. People do like talk to each other (most of the time), they like to "cruise", and sometimes just be around others. And what better way to carry on these activities, but in the midst of books?
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