Emil J. Novak, Sr. opened Buffalo, New York’s Queen City Bookstore in 1969. He and his family still own and run the place. I found all of the remarkable photos on the website’s history gallery. Some of the gems I spotted are posted below.
What can I say that I haven’t said before? We need more stores like this. Kids need more awesome stuff like this. They deserve the chance to roam around in places that exist with them in mind (I’m talking about libraries too), flip open a random book, and have their minds blown forever. What we now dismiss as “obsolete physical media” once propped up local communities and ignited the imagination of generations. It’s not just books that influenced and inspired me, but the places I found them in.
You can see more book stores and comic book stores here.
2 Warps to Neptune 
I have that book in the last picture.Bought it when I was 12.I still have it today. The artwork is fantastic and the text is like a mockumentary,making the book like a random history of Future worlds, including our own.Cool.
Yes! It’s part of the Terran Trade Authority series. Very popular and influential.
Now that I know this, the book doesn’t soom so odd.Ive researched a bit about other books now I want to find them.Nohing I like better than a good collectible hunt in the dead of Winter!
Very well said, we need places like this. Wonderful photos. G x
there’s plenty of places like this…most are better!
Nothing is better than this.
That place looks unbelievably cool. How wonderful that they are still going strong today.