Powell's City of Books

On Sunday, we went to Mass at Resurrection Church. It took us twenty minutes to get there, and it was the closest church to us. There apparently aren't many Catholics in Portland. I looked it up, Portland is 15% Catholic. In western Pennsylvania, I could probably drive to 7 or 8 different Catholic churches in a twenty minute span. The largest group in the Portland area identifies as "unaffiliated", with 64% considering themselves to be in that category.

After church, we drove downtown to the legendary, independent bookstore called Powell's City of Books. 


The bookstore is the largest new and used independent bookstore in the world. Apparently it started as one small store, then when the building next to it became available, they purchased it and expanded. As other buildings became available, they continued to expand until the bookstore eventually occupied an entire city block. 

The different genres of books are contained in different, color-coded rooms. 


There is also a rare books room. There is a limit to how many people can go in this room at one time. You have to get a badge to go in.

Rare books room

Honesty OR Politics; it can't be both

A rare book in Portland?

Not only rare books, but rare machines!

In addition to exploring and enjoying the different rooms in the bookstore, we also met up with a couple of people we know. The adult children of our good friends and neighbors live in Portland, and we met up in the coffee shop of Powell's with Kaye Marie and Grant Burnet. We haven't seen them in awhile, since they both moved to Portland some time ago. It was great visiting, reminiscing, and catching up with them.

Kaye, Kay, Joe, Grant



Comments

  1. AnonymousJuly 29, 2024 at 7:13 PM

    Love the bookstore! Boy could I collect! Honesty or politics ?
    How. Cool running into friends!
    Ellen

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  2. AnonymousAugust 24, 2024 at 7:48 AM

    Interesting store. Nice getting to see old friends there.

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