Oh hell. This is awful. Trans Allegheny Books, an absolutely
astonishing used book store housed in an old
Carnegie library in Parkersburg, West Virginia,
is closing.
Look at this place. Not only was it a fabulous book store, the building is also out of this world.
Fie.
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No chance it could go back to being a library, I suppose. :(
It looks totally like the Hollywood stereotype of "a library" or "a bookstore". You half expect Noah Wyle's "The Librarian" to be mooching around. From the looks of its "obituary" it looks as though it was an important community amenity, too.
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