{"id":2236,"date":"2010-06-21T23:31:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T04:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2010-06-21T23:32:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T04:32:51","slug":"the-book-place-3129-millwood-avenue-early-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"The Book Place, 3129 Millwood Avenue: early 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/06\/milbook01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/06\/milbook01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/06\/milbook02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/06\/milbook02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suspect these are not the right pictures as the address I have for <i>The Book Place<\/i> is 3129, and this little plaza is 3121.  However, numbers sometimes change and walking this stretch of Millwood, I can't find <i>any place<\/i> numbered 3129, and I remember <i>The Book Place<\/i> being in a strip like this where you had to watch carefully before backing out into Millwood.  If this <i>is<\/i> the right spot, the <i>The Book Place<\/i> would have been in the center slot.<\/p>\n<p>OK, regardless of all the above, the way I remember <i>The Book Place<\/i> is that it skewed a bit more to rare and antiquarian books than the other used book shops I frequented.  There were also very few paperback books.  As I recall it, the shop was run by an older gentleman, and he was usually carrying on a conversation with someone at the front desk.  I don't know if these were friends who dropped by, or if they were customers, but it seemed the conversation topics were usually either literary or historical in nature.  I think there may have been a bookstore cat who stayed around the front desk, but I couldn't now swear to that.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Book Place<\/i> wasn't on my regular bookshop rotation because they didn't have much in the way of science-fiction, and their prices tended to be a bit out of my reach.  What they <i>did<\/i> have was a great vintage humor section, and over the years I picked up a number of volumes of classic cartoons by artists like Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and James Thurber.  I also picked up a number of the hard to find collections of Walt Kelly's <i>Pogo<\/i>  (Which is supposed to be issued in a complete collection by Fantagraphics \"real soon now\").<\/p>\n<p>I'm not sure exactly when the place closed.  It's in the 1998 phonebook, but I believe by the time I had moved back to Columba circa 2003, it was gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect these are not the right pictures as the address I have for The Book Place is 3129, and this little plaza is 3121. However, numbers sometimes change and walking this stretch of Millwood, I can't find any place numbered 3129, and I remember The Book Place being in a strip like this where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26,5,183,4],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-historic","tag-millwood-avenue","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}