Bill Dooley wrote, "An interesting paragraph in a recent Seattle
Times article regarding the famous Seattle Elliott Bay Bookstore: 'Yesterday
a survey of literacy in 64 cities confirmed what Seattle bookworms have long
suspected. It named Seattle as one of the country's two most-literate
cities, edged out for No. 1 only by Minneapolis.' Here is the link:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=135236750
&zsection_id=268448406&slug=literate11&date=20030711. A question for you
long-time Minneapolis residents: Did Minneapolis ever have a flagship-type
bookstore similar to Elliott Bay? When I moved here in 1978, it was downtown
Minneapolis B. Dalton, but somehow it does not seem comparable."
[BRM] On a not entirely unrelated note, a friend of mine who is a
used-bookstore connoisseur -- he writes and edits dictionaries, gives
seminars around the country on writing and grammar, and tours the used
bookstores looking for old dictionaries and grammars in each city that he
travels to -- tells me that Minneapolis is a mecca for collecting used
books. We evidently have more and better used bookstores than any other city
that he has visited.
BRM
Brian Melendez
Downtown
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