South Lamar Is an Only Child Now
Wheatsville's Guadalupe store closes Oct. 25 after 45 years, undone by rising costs, falling sales and planned Drag construction. A letter to the South Lamar store, which just inherited the whole family.
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Philosophy Was Behind the Radiator
I walked a vanished Drag used bookstore from memory, shelf by shelf, from the soggy free cart to the buy counter where a clerk once priced my soul at forty cents in store credit.
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'Take One' Was a Complete Sentence
I found four rusted bolt stubs on a Guadalupe sidewalk where a red newspaper box used to stand. Nobody claims it, nobody misses it, and nobody has replaced what it gave away for nothing.
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Guadalupe Street Changes Its Inventory Every Odd-Numbered Year
The state's hemp ban took effect today, so I walked the Drag counting freshly emptied glass cases and wondering which storefront the Capitol will repaint next.
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