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[Extollager]

Uncle Hugo’s Bookstore Burned Down in Riots

Uncle Hugo’s, the oldest independent science fiction and fantasy bookstore in the US founded in 1974, burned down during the recent riots protesting police brutality and racism in the wake of the s…

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Updates:

Save Uncle Hugo’s: August Update

Uncle Hugo’s and Uncle Edgar’s as they looked before last night’s fire. Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore owner Don Blyly sent an update to subscribers on August 6 shari…

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[Ambrose]

I recall Mercator Somnium in Washington in the 80s. But it had gone by the 90s. Anyone else remember it?

 

[Extollager]

I understand that Dreamhaven Books and Comics in Minneapolis was also vandalized in the recent riots, but not destroyed like Uncle Hugo's.

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More news...

DreamHaven Books Owner and Employee Robbed, Beaten

Owner Greg Ketter and an employee were attacked and robbed as they were closing Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books for the night on November 9. Ketter said in a public Facebook post: 2020 is the j…

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[Extollager]

THE UNCLES STORIES PROJECT - Home (weebly.com)

A place to read people's memories of a long-lived sf bookstore that was destroyed in the summer of 2020, as noted elsewhere in this thread.

It seems that it would be good also to have sites for memories of bookstores now gone that came to less catastrophic ends.

 

[Extollager]

Astro Pen was looking for this thread.

 

[Astro Pen]

Thanks @Extollager I had searched 'bookshops' not 'book stores'
I'll duplicate the post here

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The sad loss of Berwyn books
A treasure house of secondhand and antique books lost to fire.
Why does this keep happening?
I recall we had a thread on lost bookshops but I couldn't find it.

'So much history has been lost with these books'

About 400,000 books worth £1m were destroyed after a blaze broke out on Tuesday.

www.bbc.co.uk

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[soulsinging]

In happier news, Uncle Hugo's will be coming back, in a new location 2-3 miles from the old!

We reached agreement on the price of the building that I wanted to buy for the new Uncles location and I passed along the earnest money check to my real estate agent midweek and he passed it along to the title company. So the deal will go through unless something totally unexpected happens before closing. Closing is tentatively scheduled for March 24, and I hope that contractors will be able to start working on the building around the beginning of April and I hope we can open sometime in June.

Interestingly, the building they bought used to be owned by a local stained glass company.

 

[Extollager]

Here's what should be a pretty well up-to-date source for British book seekers.

thebookguide Bookshops/Home

www.thebookguide.info

 

[hitmouse]

Here's what should be a pretty well up-to-date source for British book seekers.

thebookguide Bookshops/Home

www.thebookguide.info

That is excellent. Thanks.

 

[hitmouse]

I looked in the window of my local second hand bookshop yesterday and was reassured.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Hey, isn't that our @Teresa Edgerton's wonderful Goblin Moon on the bottom shelf of that first bookcase?

 

[hitmouse]

Yes, I think so.