Eve's Books in Helena

I've done a lot of postings about bookstores on this blog, including a few I've never visited because they are no longer open. Many of the earlier ones are listed in this post. In 2024 I wrote pieces about Branch Books in Hartselle and Branch Books 2 in Cullman. Earlier this year I posted an item about a "bookstore tour" of Huntsville my brother Richard and I undertook one weekend. 

This post covers one of those shops requiring a Tardis; I never visited during its lifespan, unfortunately. I first ran across the store's existence on the Shelby County map shown below. Then I discovered the photo on Helena's Wikipedia page, which at least tells us the store was presumably in operation in January 2008.

This Shelby County map has nothing on it anywhere to indicate a date, issuing entity or creator of the map. The map is similar to one of Pelham from 1989 that I've written about and a 1985 Hoover one. I found Eve's Books on two business sites. One gave a different phone number but little else new or useful. The other noted that Eve's Books was founded in 2010, had one employee and an estimated annual revenue of $47,000. So perhaps the store existed in the 2008-2010 period. 

If you have any more information about Eve's Books, fee free to share it in the comments. 

Photo taken on January 19, 2008, during a central Alabama snowfall. 

Source: Wikipedia