Endangered bookstores
I didn’t see a bookstore called 84 Charing Cross Road (a movie from the 1980s starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins which some of my friends consider the very definition of ‘romantic’ but which I’ve never been able to sit through), but I did see some well-known antiquarian bookshops.
Quinto
Henry Pordes
Any Amount of Books
Read about the bibliocide on Charing Cross Road in the Guardian.
I had just come from a Fred Perry store and was browsing in the second-hand bookshops when a very old man pointed to my shopping bag and said, “Fred Perry!” I nodded politely and edged sideways out the door. In the next store I was looking at some very old Baedeker travel guides when another ancient pointed to my shopping bag and said, “Fred Perry!” Maybe they were his classmates.
Speaking of that brand, I found out the other day that Jappy who owns the stores in Manila had a seat in the sponsors’ box in Wimbledon. I hate you, Jappy. I hate you with a fury.
Meanwhile we proles must wake up at 5am tomorrow to line up for tickets to the tennis. Good night.
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June 26th, 2010 at 15:33
Do they sell tickets during the first Sunday? Monday’s line-up for Centre Court will be awesome if everything goes according to script. The schedule will probably be Federer-Melzer, Serena-Sharapova, and Nadal-Mathieu.
Have fun.
June 27th, 2010 at 05:11
84 Charing Cross Road doesn’t exist anymore but there is a plaque where it once stood.
http://deckshoes.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/84-charing-cross-road/