I've done a lot of postings about bookstores on this blog, including a few I've never visited since they are no longer around. 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. I posted an item about a "bookstore tour" of Huntsville my brother Richard and I undertook one weekend in 2025. Just recently in December 2025 I wrote an item on Eve's Books which operated briefly in Helena. I've also written about two college bookstores in Auburn in 1950, Burton's and Hawkins. That year my parents married and then left Auburn when dad graduated at the end of the fall quarter.
Now we come to another of those stores no longer open, Anders Book Store in Auburn. I recently came across this little pocket notebook in my vast collection of random Alabama stuff. Since I was in Auburn from 1970 until 1980, I guess I picked it up at the store. Basketball and football schedules are included as well as the calendars for 1976 and 1977, so it was designed for that school year. By then I had finished my undergraduate degree and was working at the university's Ralph Brown Draughon Library. Anders closed in March 2022. The store had been operating since 1966.
So how did Auburn's football and basketball teams do that year? The football squad produced a 4-7 record [3-3 in the SEC] under coach Doug Barfield. Shug Jordan had retired the previous year after 25 years as head coach. Barfield remained at Auburn through the 1980 season.
The basketball team did a bit better overall, 13-13, but 6-12 in the SEC under coach Bob Davis. Davis coached Auburn 1973-1978 and was SEC coach of the year in 1975.
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