From Dave "Electric Book-a-loo" Brigham:
The New England Mobile Book Fair is a Greater Boston institution. Founded in the 1960s, the warehouse-sized book store in 2017 moved out of the above location on Needham Street in Newton, Mass., and into a new, smaller space just up the road. Unfortunately, the new location is sited in a shopping plaza that is slated for redevelopment in the near future. All signs point to the book store needing to seek out yet another location some time this year. For pictures of the old mill site at Oak and Needham streets that occupies part of the redevelopment zone, see March 1, 2018, "I Seek Newton, Part VIII: Upper Falls (Section 1)."
I took the above picture while the store was winding down operations at its former location. Here's what the site looks like as of late 2018.
So what's to become of the site?
Located at 82-84 Needham Street, and built in 1930, the building is currently available for lease for retail use.
I think somebody should install a Tommy Bahama or a Quiksilver store. Seems ready for that, don'tcha think?
OK, for those of you who didn't figure it out, here's the inspiration for the title of this post:
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