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 from April 2022. In 2024 I wrote pieces about Branch Books in Hartselle and Branch Books 2 in Cullman. In March 2025 I posted an item about a "bookstore tour" of Huntsville my brother Richard and I undertook one weekend. More recently I've written about two closed bookstores, Anders Bookstore in Auburn and Eve's Books in Helena.
Recently I was wandering around the wonderful Alabama Mosaic site and came across the photograph below. So here we are. Again.
The photo was taken by John E. Scott in November 1977 inside a bookstore at Eastdale Mall. That mall had just opened August 3. Scott's photo shows two Goodwyn Junior High School students, Donna Kilpatrick on the right, taken for "Who's Who" section of the school yearbook. The other young lady is unidentified on the Alabama Mosaic web site.
Could this store have been a B. Dalton Bookseller? Founded in 1966, the chain eventually had 779 stores but had liquidated the last 50 by 2010. Most of the stores were located at indoor malls. This dormant page at Yelp shows an Eastdale Mall location.
Source:
Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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