Coolest Bookstore Ever
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Well, we didn’t find a “bustling shopping district” in the area we were told was the coolest part of town. There was pretty much a row of somewhere between 5 and 10 bars and a handful of shops. But we did discover the one redeeming grace of Fayetteville, Arkansas: the coolest bookstore I’ve ever seen.
The only truly enjoyable part of our stay there, aside from watching “Enchanted” and seeing the Christmas lights on the square, was this store. The Dickson Street Bookstore.
The photo above is the only really straight one of a labyrinth of halls. Most of the store is chopped up into 5- to 15-foot walls, and as you can see, everything is piled to the ceiling. (There are plenty of ladders and library-style footstools around.)
They have a very disappointing website — which I couldn’t even find again when I wanted to put a link here — but if you’re ever in the area, you should really check them out.
The atmosphere alone is worth a drive, although I didn’t find any of the books I was looking for. It’s much more of a “come see what you can find” type of place rather than a “find what you seek” store. They did have a lot of books by many of my favorite authors.
Oh, and did I mention they have A HUNDRED THOUSAND BOOKS? When I mean coolest bookstore ever, I mean BIG BOOKSTORE.
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