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Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: March 10, 2012, 1:27 am
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[center]The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World
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These are INCREDIBLE!!! This is why I will never give up hope
that Amazon and all these online bookstores will start to come
back to Earth and allow customers to once again, feel the need
to get out of their houses and venture down to their local
bookstore. Yes, it would be nice to have one of these in my neck
of the woods for sure. But all bookstores offer something you
can't get online: Human interaction and amazing architecture.
The closet thing we have to something like this is Point Loma's
Bookstar. Rather than tear down the Point Loma Movie Theater, a
place where I saw such classics as E.T., Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom and The Goonies (which by the way was the last
movie I saw there). They kept the interior and exterior of the
building pretty much intact with all the ornate designs on the
ceiling. But it's still nowhere near those in the Top 20. Not
even close.
[center]Point Loma Bookstar (Day)
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Point Loma Bookstar (Night)
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Re: Bookstores
By: boyinblack80 Date: March 10, 2012, 4:51 pm
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literally drove past that place this morning. My kids Karate
class is about 5 blocks down from there....in that Naval base
they converted into a shopping mall thing...I don't even
remember what they call it.
still really cool because all the old buildings are intact...the
building her class is in...is this killer old 2 story naval
office.
really nice and has a cool old Spanish feel to it.
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Re: Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: March 10, 2012, 4:53 pm
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I use to ride my bike to Bookstar, Tower Video, Tower Records. I
had legs that could kill terrorists without even trying.
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Re: Bookstores
By: boyinblack80 Date: March 10, 2012, 5:06 pm
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I am sure.
David Williams and I would ride our bikes out to CONVOY to go to
this Dungeons and Dragons store out there....I mean it was so
far (called "Command Post)
but it was like this magical trek to get some cool D and D stuff
when we were about 12 or 13.
I'd get home and be so tired...but the purchases for the day
always made it worth while!
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Re: Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 30, 2013, 3:41 pm
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So, I just drove over to Point Loma Bookstar today. Its been at
least 5 years since I last walked inside. It seems different,
but the same. I guess it's just been so damn long that I kinda
felt out of place....and yet it felt like home away from home.
My main objective to going there was to grab the latest issue of
Playboy with Raquel Pomplun as the new Playmate of the Year.
Naturally I grabbed the remaining copies. Then I headed over to
Borders. I knew they went belly up a while back, but I figured
that there would be a replacement bookstore. Nope. It's now
Trader Joe's.
Ack!
So, I went over to see if Barnes and Noble was still around,
which is a few blocks north of 'Borders'. They are still around.
Grabbed the last copy of the Playboy issue they had on the rack.
I feel like I have been driving all day today, which is
something that I just don't do with regularity anymore. I hate
driving. I'm glad that Bookstar is still around. It's nice
knowing it's there when I need it.
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Re: Bookstores
By: Neumatic Date: June 1, 2013, 12:09 am
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We had one of those Bookstar things in Nashville, it was pretty
sweet but they went out of business around the turn of the new
century and they never replaced it with anything. Really sucks.
I miss going to the big chain bookstores (I do have a
Books-A-Million that I like, but I miss Borders and Davis Kidd,
which had an INSANE magazine section, I always plopped down
bills there), and the used bookstore is SO far out of the way I
only go there once a year now.
And I don't think I ever had the gall to buy a Playboy. I
wanted to find an old one at the comic book store and felt too
self-conciouss.
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Re: Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 1, 2013, 12:20 am
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Playboy = Disney. It's so tame. Now if it were something
extreme, then yeah, it could make people a bit self conscious
about getting it.
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Re: Bookstores
By: Neumatic Date: June 1, 2013, 12:28 am
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(When Vanessa Hudgens is in Playboy, THEN it truly will be
Disney.)
Just shows how old I am. Although I'm sure it's more of how
long I would be there looking through all the back issues than
actually holding an issue (which I could slip between some
NORMAL comics, which I'm sure are just as dirty in this day and
age). Plus I probably have all the pictures I was looking for
anyway, just wanted some higher-res ones with the mag.
The last comic-con I went to I actually met a really cool old
man who was a Playboy cartoonist, I bought a book of his stuff,
I feel like a Mad Men guy with that thing. I also have Serpieri
books on my bookshelf, but I doubt anyone in my fam would ever
pick one of those up. So it's a very strange contradiction I
got going on.
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Re: Bookstores
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 1, 2013, 12:29 am
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I hate not having a local bookstore. The library is fine for
what it is. It's just not the same as going to a legit bookstore
with magazines from other countries and whatnot. So, I have to
drive over to Bookstar for that fix and getting there isn't
always worth the time and effort. My life would be so much
simpler if they just opened a f*cking bookstore down the block.
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Re: Bookstores
By: Neumatic Date: June 1, 2013, 12:30 am
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Ann Patchett's bookstore is down the street from me but it's so
small and tiny, it's for "readers" and a bit more snobby. It's
nice but it's not the same as Davis Kidd.
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