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Downtown Bookstore?
Those of you who know me know that along with my interest in cigars, pipes and tobaccos, I am also passionate about chess, Jazz, the Tour de France (which I will take an untold amount of abuse for for three weeks every year) and books. In the vein of books, I've been talking with Hugh Hollowell of Midtown Books on Madison Avenue at Overton Square. We're concocting a plan to put a mini-bookstore - a satellite shop, if you will - on the mezzanine level here at the Tobacco Bowl. Downtown Memphis, sadly, does not currently have a bookstore and this enterprise will not have near the selection of your major players, but we're hoping to have 1,000 - 1,500 titles on hand...and possibly more if the demand is there. The main focus will be regional interest books and used newer books. I get asked countless times in a week, mainly by tourists to our fair city, where the bookstore downtown is, and have to tell them there's not one. They always seem perplexed that a downtown making the kind of comeback ours is does not have something as necessary as a bookstore.
So, if all goes right, you'll have under one roof a tobacco shop, coffee shop, lottery playhouse, free wireless internet, Tour de France on three TVs and the downtown branch of Midtown Books. I'll be sure to keep you up to date with all of the plans and happenings.
Posted by Richard Alley at July 16, 2005 03:12 PM
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