Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Howard is gone and the book shop row will...
...Boston Redevelopment Authority will begin demolition next week of the historic book shop row along Cornhill between Scollay Square and Fanueil Hall in downtown Boston. The buildings now slated for eventual destruction include the Brattle Book Shop, formerly Closeworthy's, the oldest extant book store in America...
...Brattle Book Shop itself is a cavernous, four-level building which contains some 350,000 second-hand and antiquarian books. Brick catacombs, piled high with dusty volumes including occasional lost rarities, are ranked along the walls of the basement. The windows of the shop are cluttered with newspaper clippings, engravings, pamphlets, and books "which made Cornhill famous." In front of the shop are stacks of dime "bargains" and on the floors and several thousand feet of shelves inside are heaped books and articles of virtually every conceivable category...
...adventure has gone from the modern book store," the Brattle's Gloss complains. "You might just as well sit home and order by catalogue." The bargain prices which make books available to those who could not otherwise buy the intrigue and the romance of antiquarian shop, Gloss contends, make the second-hand book stall of special consideration...
Although his main store will for several months, Mr. Gloss will clearing his stock of books in annex of his shop today, selling thing for ten cents a volume. Next day he will start giving the books and by the middle of next week, the molition of the Cornhill will have...