Word: solano
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Owner Louisa Solano fondly recalls the days before she took over the store. Since the former owner could afford to carry a small stock of books, he used floor space for couches and chairs...
...lieu of the seating area, Solano has increased the number of titles she carries from 2,000 to 16,000. She supports herself with the store, and is using creativity and personal attention to her customers to move her specialized merchandise off the shelves...
...Though Solano speaks sentimentally about her store's past, she emphasizes that one of her goals was to rid the shop of its "clubby atmosphere...
...Louisa Solano has lived in several Squarelocations and remembers it as a place full offamilies...
...blessed and cursed with one of the mostcreative customer bases in the area," Solano says."Unfortunately they do not have a strong sense ofethics...