Elliott Bay Book Company
Cavernous independent bookstore in a former Ford truck-repair building, with a basement cafe pouring coffee since nineteen seventy-nine.
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This guide to Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle follows Walter Carr, a man who had never run a store, and the shop he and his wife Maggie opened in Pioneer Square in nineteen seventy-three. It crosses the hill to the old Ford truck garage the store occupies now, and to the hand-built cedar bookcases that made the move with it. Best heard standing among the shelves, with your eyes on the ceiling trusses.
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