20060108
more than rarities
where is this?
Originally uploaded by ulanmaya_cinq.
i found this place in the suburb of evanston, at the recommendation of a cashier at the panera bread shop in that city. i walked into a clean, wide alleyway with parking for four cars. across the alley from this place is the back of a framing store, which you have to enter the conventional way, that is, through the front.
the front door of this place faces the parking lot, still paved in rough asphalt like all the other alleys in evanston. someone planted an oak tree in a corner, put benches, planted flowering bushes along the walls of the small parking lot. there's still the garbage dumps across the way along the side of the frame shop, but otherwise, the front door where this place pictured above doesn't invite you to an oppressive place at all.
the wreath at the colonial doors told of a warm, inviting place. the place is suprisingly huge! the owners have added the quaintest things to the tiny space - furniture, a piano for the music section, turn of the century military coats for the history section - expanding it remarkably. it reminds the visitor that the presence of the best of these items in a house are synonymous with a life lived well.
they have room after room of the things you see in that photo, grouped according to medicine, world war 2, journalism, photography, children's, aviation, literature, business, poetry, gardening, law, cooking - groups that everyone can easily follow. their collections are impressive, which include rarities like 1960s poetry magazine issues and saturday evening post anthologies.
it seems you can't cram another item into that space, but it's actually still easily negotiable. they rarely have any paperbacks, almost all their items are hardbound. but what's really extraordinary is that they've painstakingly wrapped every single reading item there in vinyl, even the newest items, such as harry potter and sue grafton.
i eavesdropped on customers chatting with the owners about how people from around the world come to see their little space.
what space am i talking about?
hint 1: coz i feel like an adventure
hint 2: coz i'm hopelessly clueless ¶ 1/08/2006 02:19:00 AM
where is this?
Originally uploaded by ulanmaya_cinq.
guess what room this is.
i found this place in the suburb of evanston, at the recommendation of a cashier at the panera bread shop in that city. i walked into a clean, wide alleyway with parking for four cars. across the alley from this place is the back of a framing store, which you have to enter the conventional way, that is, through the front.
the front door of this place faces the parking lot, still paved in rough asphalt like all the other alleys in evanston. someone planted an oak tree in a corner, put benches, planted flowering bushes along the walls of the small parking lot. there's still the garbage dumps across the way along the side of the frame shop, but otherwise, the front door where this place pictured above doesn't invite you to an oppressive place at all.
the wreath at the colonial doors told of a warm, inviting place. the place is suprisingly huge! the owners have added the quaintest things to the tiny space - furniture, a piano for the music section, turn of the century military coats for the history section - expanding it remarkably. it reminds the visitor that the presence of the best of these items in a house are synonymous with a life lived well.
they have room after room of the things you see in that photo, grouped according to medicine, world war 2, journalism, photography, children's, aviation, literature, business, poetry, gardening, law, cooking - groups that everyone can easily follow. their collections are impressive, which include rarities like 1960s poetry magazine issues and saturday evening post anthologies.
it seems you can't cram another item into that space, but it's actually still easily negotiable. they rarely have any paperbacks, almost all their items are hardbound. but what's really extraordinary is that they've painstakingly wrapped every single reading item there in vinyl, even the newest items, such as harry potter and sue grafton.
i eavesdropped on customers chatting with the owners about how people from around the world come to see their little space.
what space am i talking about?
hint 1: coz i feel like an adventure
hint 2: coz i'm hopelessly clueless ¶ 1/08/2006 02:19:00 AM
