Holy smokes! A used bookstore is coming to our neighborhood: Walls of Books, opening at 3225 3325 Georgia Ave NW tomorrow, according to their Facebook.
The Post reports that the store is part of a small chain that started in Georgia, with 8 other franchise locations, including New Orleans. The Post’s article is about the regrowth of used book stores in general, which is pretty interesting. I’m a fan of them, for one. I often stop at a huge one called McKay’s when I visit relatives in Tennessee.
This Walls of Books is owned by Pablo Sierra, a Navy veteran and former government contracting worker, and their website says they’ll take trade-ins for store credit, as well as selling toys and educational products by a company called Melissa & Doug.
The store’s Facebook page says they’ll have 30,000 books, and it looks like a big space inside. This is the former location of Planet Chocolate City at the corner of Georgia and Lamont, which was pretty small, so maybe they took over other stores nearby. inside the little strip mall next to the Post office just south of Lamont Street. I’m definitely going to pay them a visit soon.
