Leary's Book Store
Leary’s Book Store was a landmark in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for nearly one hundred years. In 1969, when it closed, it was known as the “oldest book store in the United States.”
Read more about Leary's Book Store: Downtown Location, Building Structure, A Famous Trademark, of Sorts, Function, Origin, Closure, For Further Reading
Famous quotes containing the words leary, book and/or store:
“I’ve never heard of Timothy Leary before, but I want to get into advertising, so I liked when he talked about how whoever controls your eyeballs controls your mind.”
—Amy Stewart (b. 1975)
“A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This is being young,
Assumption of the startled century
Like new store clothes....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)