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theater: Bookstores, Theaters, Newspapers, and Neighborhoods-- The New Urban 'Bland' - 03/26/08 04:53 PM
My bride and I were discussing the changes in our town, in our neighborhood, and in the way kids grow up these days over our coffee this morning as she bemoaned the fact that Bonanza Books is going out of business.  Bonanza-- long the independent new and used book store in downtown Walnut Creek-- is a symbol of our small-town past when people actually went downtown and browsed for goods [like books] instead of browsing for them on their laptops.  Unlike some other shopping, the used bookstore phenomenon specialized in that feeling of elation at actually finding something worthy of buying.  Browsing for a $4 treasure … (5 comments)

 
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