352 Main Street, Placerville
(June 2008 to August 2009)
the front window
 
a couple of looks inside our last bookstore - looking to the back of the store & towards the children's section 
This is a link to what turned out to be a very popular page. The store's name came about because
our long held fascination with crows and ravens. I did it just to answer those questions people had about what are the differences between ravens and crows. It remains popular and interesting.  
A NEW NAME - the transition from The Next Chapter to Raven's Tale
Like watching sausage being made, finding a new name for a bookstore is not something pretty to watch. Take a look at the names we mulled over. Please don't think less of us - we were having a whole lot of fun.
Armchair Traveler
Balthazar's Bookshop
B.F. Moore Books
Book Friends
Book Junkie
Book Traveler
Book Vibe
BookEnds
Bookfellows
Bookworks
Chapter & Verse
digressions
Dramatic Irony
Euphemisms
Folio
Goodfellows | Have You Read?
Heroes & Heretics
Hungry Reader
Ideal Reader
J. Porter Books
Kitch & Lit
Laughing Raven
Lucid Raven
Mind Candy - feed your head
Mr. Peepers
Mode
moore books
Nocturne
Nomad Books
Perspectuves
Poetic Justice | porter books
Porter Potters
Preludes
Raven Books
Raven's Tale
Ravenworks
Read Books
Reading Matter(s)
Reading Ravens
Rowdy Raven
smallbox
the independent
The Turning Point
TWITS
Watermark
Writer's Voice |
Going through some business papers the other day, I came across this quote from Cheryl in Placerville about our last bookstore. "Visiting your books is like having a party with good friends." 
the bookstores at 352 Main Street
it was a home for books for 35 years
in that time there have been four different bookstores here
some were here for many years, some for several months
strangely, every one of the bookstores had the same phone number (530) 622-4540
Rivendell Books
started in the 1970's, it had a heavy Tolkien flavor
our current landlady Pete, started the store down the street and then moved up to 352 Main around 1974
Hidden Passage Books
after many years, the flavor changed towards more pop culture figures, comics and more
this was the time of the clear panel in the floor that revealed a skeleton in a cave ... people are still looking for him
Wild Mountain Books and More
Sherry and John remodeled and wanted to keep a new bookstore in Placerville
their store had a lean and open feel to it
Raven's Tale
our bookstore was something special, something ever-changing, but it was always striving to be a fine place for the best in new books
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