Friday Postcard: Empty Eastern Market (Plus! Best Bookstore Ever)

Posted on 09. Sep, 2011 by in Photos

I really wanted to take Mike to Eastern Market in DC this Summer. Maybe because it’s fun or maybe because it’s the only really funky and hip thing that happens in my stuff hometown. Anyways I failed, because I am lazy and unless you go on the weekends the market just looks like the above picture. Empty.

The other highlight of visiting Capitol Hill? My favorite used bookstore in the world. Can you guess why I love it so much?

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5 Responses to “Friday Postcard: Empty Eastern Market (Plus! Best Bookstore Ever)”

  1. Nicole

    09. Sep, 2011

    i used to live right there and I love that bookstore. Especially the man who works there who belts out “fiction, mystery upstairs..” etc.

    Also as you know I run a quote blog, and I was re-reading a Vonnegut book I read something that I thought you would like Steph: ” “Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.” – in Cat’s Cradle.

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  2. allison

    09. Sep, 2011

    I love that bookstore too! I used to live right outside DC, and though I actually disliked going IN the bookstore (claustrophobic! You could be buried in there for weeks), I loved the windows you couldn’t actually look in.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/afrcreative/5952546028/in/set-72157627227551820

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  3. Lee

    09. Sep, 2011

    I have made this same mistake with Eastern Market, and I love that book store! When I lived in DC I could spend hours in there digging through stacks of books – you never knew what you were going to find.

    On a completely random side note typing Eastern Market now has gotten the Eastern Motors song stuck in my head – maybe there is another fine piece of Americana to share with people ;)

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  4. Claire

    09. Sep, 2011

    I was just in there a few months ago- Agree with one of the other comments-too claustrophobic for me! Love books, but couldn’t even figure out where to begin. I was overwhelmed so I just gave up. ;(

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  5. Shtina

    11. Sep, 2011

    “Fiction upstairs, non-fiction down, there are exceptions” – The old man at the desk is the best part. I love that bookstore too :)

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