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Chiprocks1:
The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World
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.
Point Loma Bookstar (Day)
Point Loma Bookstar (Night)
boyinblack80:
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.
Chiprocks1:
I use to ride my bike to Bookstar, Tower Video, Tower Records. I had legs that could kill terrorists without even trying.
boyinblack80:
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!
Chiprocks1:
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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