Our previous location on Crenshaw Blvd was much smaller... so one of our early challenges was creating display space. Stuart purchased 2nd-hand metal shelving from a medical library... but look closely... and you'll see that the display "tables" are actually used office desks. The main display table in front was always covered with books... so no one knew it was really a used conference table top, propped up on boxes! Resourceful Stuart Ng learned early on from reading "Little Orphan Annie" comics: "Learn to use what you have got, and you won't need what you have not."
Here's another sample table top we used to display books:
And here's our showroom now... where we are remembering our beloved Borders stores. Our books are nestled happily on used fixtures purchased during the recent wave of Borders store closings. Decades ago, the big chains started with Crown books... Barnes & Nobles and Borders soon followed, and drove out a lot of independent stores. The big chains were the bad guys then... but now they are the wounded giants who smote the small stores, but were cut down by the new big girl on the block: Amazon. So what will happen to Amazon? We'll just have to see where the story goes......
Here's another sample table top we used to display books:
And here's our showroom now... where we are remembering our beloved Borders stores. Our books are nestled happily on used fixtures purchased during the recent wave of Borders store closings. Decades ago, the big chains started with Crown books... Barnes & Nobles and Borders soon followed, and drove out a lot of independent stores. The big chains were the bad guys then... but now they are the wounded giants who smote the small stores, but were cut down by the new big girl on the block: Amazon. So what will happen to Amazon? We'll just have to see where the story goes...... Meanwhile, here you see the front of the Borders triangle displays...
Here they are from the back... facing towards the front door. The books here were previously all displayed on used office desks. The desks have gone on to new jobs... and we've welcomed our "new" fixtures...
These are the lovely Borders table tops with display shelves on the surface and underneath:
We've always had the books... and now YOU can really see them. Our 2nd hand metal shelves, glass display cabinet, desks, wooden flat files, and these Borders fixtures are all ways we combine our love for books with our habit of re-using. Hey, we're older than we look and we like old stuff. You learn over time that the old stuff has character, patina.. and often lasts longer than something new. Like Indiana Jones said: "It's not the years kid; it's the mileage."
Here they are from the back... facing towards the front door. The books here were previously all displayed on used office desks. The desks have gone on to new jobs... and we've welcomed our "new" fixtures...
These are the lovely Borders table tops with display shelves on the surface and underneath:
We've always had the books... and now YOU can really see them. Our 2nd hand metal shelves, glass display cabinet, desks, wooden flat files, and these Borders fixtures are all ways we combine our love for books with our habit of re-using. Hey, we're older than we look and we like old stuff. You learn over time that the old stuff has character, patina.. and often lasts longer than something new. Like Indiana Jones said: "It's not the years kid; it's the mileage."
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