This bookmark is a real nostalgia item. The Bob Miller Book Room was a bookstore located in the lower shopping level of a building on Bloor Street in fashionable Yorkville. They specialized in academic books and I often went there to buy books for courses I was taking when I was at university. It was like an unofficial university book store, at least for students in the Humanities. A lot of profs arranged to have books on their reading lists available there.
That was in the late 1980s and early ’90s, and to be honest I thought the Book Room closed down long ago. But when I found this bookmark I looked online and learned that it only closed in 2019, after being in business for almost 45 years. A pretty good run, given what was happening to the bookselling business at the time.
Book: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Alex Good 
Did they accept your Top Cat colouring book back even though you scribbled over the edges of his waistcoat?
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They added that to their special collections. You had to put on white gloves just to handle it.
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That’s what they said about you.
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No glove, no love.
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Another victim of the covid shutdowns I presume.
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Think it shut down just before Covid. It’s been really hard times for booksellers for a while. And I’m sure rent in Yorkville wasn’t cheap. Hard to make a go of it even with the university crowd.
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Sadly, it was usually Go Big or Go Broke for bookstores 😦
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Yeah, they turned into big box stores. Then Amazon came along and took them to school. But apparently small bookstores can still do pretty well if they can find a niche.
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A cool relic from days of yore 🙂
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Yep, this one took me back.
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