This bookmark isn’t in the best of shape, but like a lot of these Bookstores No More bookmarks it represents a bit of history. Macondo is of course the fictional town that provides the setting for Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, but it’s also the name of a second-hand bookstore that was located just across the street from City Hall in Guelph for 36 years. “Established 1978 — Open 7 Days a Week.” It closed doors in 2014 for all the usual reasons. As the owner put it, “It’s a business that is no longer sustainable. It has been a great business over the last 36 years, but it has slowly fallen off. And we recognize that it is a big cultural shift that’s not going to change, or change in time to help us.”
Book: Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen
Alex Good 
Did it have a basement? For the more discerning customer like yourself? How many kiosks?
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It may well have had a basement, but I was never invited. That would have been for a select clientele.
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Yeah, drive through bookstores totally killed the traditional ones for sure. Add in all the coffee crap that places like Barnes and Noble used to draw people in and bam, bookstores are a thing of the past 😦
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All we have left are the bookmarks. Actually found one I picked up in New Hampshire back in the ’90s I was going to email you about. Couldn’t find any evidence of it still going but wasn’t sure if it belonged in a Bookstores No More post.
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What was the store name?
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Booksmith. Had locations in Bedford Mall, Nashua Mall, and Pheasant Lane Mall (Nashua).
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I can confirm they are gone. In fact, I’m not even sure if the Bedford and Nashua Malls exist as malls any more…
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Yeah, didn’t find any references to them online. The retail apocalypse did a number on malls.
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Book stores closing is sad, your bookmarks are historical relics now, keep them safe.
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I do! Thanks!
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