I asked why and the answer wasn’t surprising. “Economics.”
After 14 years on Carson Street. I bought a James Beard Cooking Lessons volume to read while I waited for a friend. The fiction section was already boxed up and packed. A lot of books to move. A loss for the South Side scene for sure.
Dormont is fortunate. 3233 West Liberty Avenue will be their new digs.
I Love Bookstores
Losing two bookstores in the city.
Just this week.
Borders with the new books-not open lomg
barely two years
and now Eljay’s Used Books on South Side,
Signs of the times.
We have recently lost two bookstores as well. So sad. Huge upscale shopping mall – Natick Collection – never even had a bookstore.
We just went to Borders and spent about $90 on cook books and greeting cards.
2 of the Borders stores are leaving Louisville because of “Economics”, too. We have 2 Half Price Bookstores here and it is always full of people. I think the Kindles and Nook Colors are slowly doing away with actual books. I sure hope they don’t become a thing of the past because I just enjoy holding one so much!
Ditto Sally
Thanks for this info. Your sad news is my glad news—it’s about time a neat book store came to the South Hills. My good. Love, L.
Well, the Good News about Eljay’s is that the Store IS re-locating, not closing for good. How I hope that they make it in Dormont!
I was drawn to Borders S’Liberty this week by: SALE / EVERYTHING 20-40% off. After a few minutes, I became aware that I literally had to leave! When I got back in my car, it came over me that shutting down a favorite Bookstore/Cafe is similiar to a “house – forclosure,” and at a gut level I was feeling what millions of American families have gone thru losing their homes, possessions, familiar intimate spaces and neighborhoods; with people(me)as well as financial insti-tutions(holding co-responsibility for the home-mortgage crisis) pawing impartially through their lives, diving for what gold we can salvage out of the terrible misfortune of one, six, a million families…..
I must have had this experience for a reason ….. certainly to be more grateful myself!!!!, but probably other reasons as well ……
I do not know a family who has been in or through foreclosure, but this small glimpse / taste of what it must be like brought it as “close to home” as I could bear it this week!!
The old Sough Side is almost gone. T & T Hardware, Swartz’s Market, El Jays, E House, the list goes on and on. The Works and the bars have edged everyone else out.
i can spend hours in a bookstore…how sad to see them go, especially such a great one in the south side!
Great shot… sad thoughts.