Anodyne
Thursday, August 11, 2005
 



A thorough, fair & thoughtful postmortem on Granville Books

"Before 850 Granville St. housed the Granville Book Company, it was home to the Mall Book Bazaar.

One of the employees then was Bob Cole, an American antiwar activist and library technician who fled from the draft to Canada in 1970 and moved out west with his wife. 'Mall Book Bazaar was the last of a chain of bookstores that a man named Benny Smith owned, whose family, I believe, had invented the Jolly Jumper, and had made a great deal of money as a result,' he says. 'He had built a series of bookstores called the Julian books chain, and Mall Book Bazaar was the last one of those stores in existence. It inherited the debt load of all his previous failures.'"


- posted by cjb @ 9:47 PM


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