Whistling Past
I love Amazon.com. I also marvel that content is now free for consumers who choose not to pay for it. I don't want to return to the past; the genie is out of the bottle. Even so, flashbacks prevented me from fully enjoying my gyro yesterday at Jerusalem Cafe. I remember when the same space was part of Whistler's Books. Long before national chains and the internet changed the way reading material is consumed, Whistler's was Kansas City's best bookstore. I miss the community and unique sense of place it provided.
posted by Happy In Bag @ 8:42 AM
3 Comments:
At 10:30 AM,
bgo said…
And before that it was a bookstore named Bibliomania.
It was owned by this character:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilsonb/865892458/in/set-72157600939598315/
Google his name and be very surprised.
Ray was the last owner of Milton's.
Things have changed.
At 5:04 PM,
Happy In Bag said…
Wow, I remember Ray. I even did a little business with him in the '80s. Back then I didn't have Google to fact check his crazy stories.
At 6:34 PM,
Fred Sanford said…
...and right next to the book store, going a little further back, was The Souper, were on Thursday afternoons one could shell and gobble a pound of shrimp for $2.50.
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