Friday, December 26, 2008
Coming Soon to the Tenderloin: Another Dirty, Poorly Lit Place For Books
Coming Soon to the Tenderloin: Another Dirty, Poorly Lit Place For Books [SFWeekly - The Snitch]
Oh. Now. How come I never knew this bookstore existed until this morning when I was wandering through old links, one of which told tales of this place?
Now it's gone (possibly to be phoenix'd ... some day ...).
The pics remind me of Woodruff & Thush, a used bookstore down by San Jose State, a used bookstore my older brother and I used to love. (And hate ... Case had a lovely rant about the time he found a great book at a terrific price and brought it to the cash register only to have Craig Thush tell him that he hadn't repriced the book in a very long time and he was repricing the book on the spot. Couldn't argue with Thush. ...)
I would've bought Woodruff & Thush out lock, stock & barrel when Craig Thush decided to retire in 2003 if I could've. I still have plenty of books I bought there in my impoverished young adulthood, including a Difco manual I got for cheaps when I was taking Microbiology 101.
Here's hoping McDonald's reopens and I get a crack at browsing the stacks some day soon.
posted by Sal Towse at 1:46 PM|
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Oh. Now. How come I never knew this bookstore existed until this morning when I was wandering through old links, one of which told tales of this place?
Now it's gone (possibly to be phoenix'd ... some day ...).
The pics remind me of Woodruff & Thush, a used bookstore down by San Jose State, a used bookstore my older brother and I used to love. (And hate ... Case had a lovely rant about the time he found a great book at a terrific price and brought it to the cash register only to have Craig Thush tell him that he hadn't repriced the book in a very long time and he was repricing the book on the spot. Couldn't argue with Thush. ...)
I would've bought Woodruff & Thush out lock, stock & barrel when Craig Thush decided to retire in 2003 if I could've. I still have plenty of books I bought there in my impoverished young adulthood, including a Difco manual I got for cheaps when I was taking Microbiology 101.
Here's hoping McDonald's reopens and I get a crack at browsing the stacks some day soon.
Labels: books, bookstores, San Francisco
posted by Sal Towse at 1:46 PM|
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
