Monocle news report (January 2012?): on overhaul of Karaköy neighborhood; a good portion of this 6:31 feature is devoted to the hardware stores there.

Nathaniel Popper, LA Times, 19 July 2011 ¶ http://lat.ms/r5zAEV

Peter Buchanan Smith. featured in NY Times some time back… if I really wanted an axe, I'd get it from his source (and the like), minus the guy-ly fixings.

Alison Flood, Guardian, 14 June 2010 ¶ good range of comments, several critical of sentimental attachments to ye olde bookstore… one brings hardware stores into the picture. ¶ I like Harvard Book Store for its espresso printer, which oddly enough brings bookstores back into "publishing" that might have been done by "stationers" a couple of centuries back. hence the "genre" tag.

caption, to photograph by Dan Chung, says it all. ¶ Once upon a life: Jeanette Winterson | Life and style | The Observer (13 June 2010) ; lots of images via flickr, google maps…

“At a hardware store, you don’t want to find a predominance of washers that fit faucets from 10 years ago,” said Clark. “That’s my theory with books.” ¶ Hartland library extends reach worldwide (Bangor Daily News, October 27, 2009) ¶ dubious theory, but he is finding success; uses various book swap sites, trading dupes and low-demand items for others; ILL statistics have gone way up as well. ¶ N.B., the librarian blogs, at http://sennebec.livejournal.com/

Jesse LaCavalier, in Places : Design Observer ¶ got me remembering Masatoshi Ito and Ito-Yokado's interest in Walmart's POP data-driven business, back in the 1980s.

Sara and John had met in 1876 at a lecture he gave in Santa Barbara, California, where she owned a lending library and stationery store. ¶ Marion [Vermazen]'s Blog: Mountain View Cemetery, April 17, 2008

In 1908 the City of Forest Grove established a tax to support a public library, the first in Washington County. Initially housed in a stationery store at 21st Avenue and College Way, the library became a city department in 1974. ¶ Forest Grove City Library, Forest Grove, Oregon

Women Telegraph Operators : Emma Hunter

The Gustine Branch of the Merced County Free Library was opened on Nov. 22, 1910. It was located in the back of the Gustine Stationery Store next to the Park Restaurant…

service stations and beauty parlors throughout the South." ex Marc W Ryan, Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) ¶ Willard McMurry had purchased the business in Jackson, Miss, in 1949; Lillian was sorting through the remnant stock, and discovered a stack of unsold 78s. ¶ I see porosity between, mutability of retail genres over time and space.

Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine 32:6 (June 1855): pp776-77
An Omnibus Store.

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Boston Globe, October 21, 2009