tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post1046249539862001007..comments2024-03-27T10:50:17.270-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Favorite Bookstores #2: Thompson's BookstoreJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-42681530733836508242015-03-22T13:37:10.843-05:002015-03-22T13:37:10.843-05:00Very cool! Thanks for the heads-up about that. My ...Very cool! Thanks for the heads-up about that. My bar-hopping days are long since over, but I may have to stop in there sometime for nostalgia's sake.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-20931961218770246002015-03-22T10:07:33.225-05:002015-03-22T10:07:33.225-05:00You will be pleased to know...
https://www.faceboo...You will be pleased to know...<br />https://www.facebook.com/thompsonsoffthebooksNicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13676006946565082354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-41760478568935839892013-01-12T18:10:09.196-06:002013-01-12T18:10:09.196-06:00Donna,
Thanks so much for this comment. I'm su...Donna,<br />Thanks so much for this comment. I'm sure I bought books from your mom and your uncle, and quite possibly from your grandfather as well. Thompson's was one of my favorite places in the world back in those days. I hated it when the building blew up. The other store was at Houston and 8th, around the corner from where the Forth Worth Public Library was located then. Also a block away from Barber's Bookstore.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-69921322442401917442013-01-12T18:01:40.390-06:002013-01-12T18:01:40.390-06:00My papaw, Roy E Thompson open the first Thompson&#...My papaw, Roy E Thompson open the first Thompson's Bookstore in 1936 in Downtown Fort Worth. I would have to ask my mom all the places it was moved around downtown but I remember the one on Throckmorton Street very well (1 block down from Leonard's Dept. Store). My papaw would takes all us grand kids ever so often to the store on Sundays. He would give us a penny sack and we could fill it with as much candy as could fit and we also got a soda pop. He was a very good and honest business man. My mom worked for him when she was a teenager in the 40's. My papaw had a stroke in the mid sixties and was bed-ridden until his death in 1971. His son Don Thompson took over the business and did open another store at the corner of Houston and 8th or 9th St. He sold the one on Throckmorton St. to our cousin Barbara due to his daughter's declining health. The original was destroyed when a restaurant which was around the corner (Can't remember the name of it) blew up. It was done on purpose to collect insurance money but I don't remember anyone dying in it. In the end the Bass brother's bought that whole block.<br /><br />My mom in later years worked at the one on Throckmorton St then at the one on Houston St. She worked there until she retired in 1999. My uncle sold the store to a friend as his daughter needed full time care and when Barne's and Noble opened down the street business dropped drastically. It closed a few years later.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02277081407360321548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-5277236834366368222011-08-24T18:06:58.781-05:002011-08-24T18:06:58.781-05:00Graham,
No, I didn't know that about the Tandy...Graham,<br />No, I didn't know that about the Tandy Center Mall. These days when I go downtown I park right beside the library, go in, come out, and leave. Other than going to Bass Hall back in May to see Craig Ferguson, that's it. Sometimes when somebody else in the family had to be downtown for whatever reason and I went along, I'd sit beside the skating rink in the mall and read a book while I waited. It wasn't like the old days, but it wasn't bad.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-82950905263896790832011-08-24T17:43:50.053-05:002011-08-24T17:43:50.053-05:00There were all sort of used books store everywhere...There were all sort of used books store everywhere way back when. I remember going to the one by my grand parents in Minnesota. Now it is gone.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08605441026026976297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-23235720223429764332011-08-24T17:05:50.781-05:002011-08-24T17:05:50.781-05:00Have you been downtown lately, James? They're...Have you been downtown lately, James? They're knocking down the Tandy mall. Very carefully, as they don't want to disturb the attached office buildings at each end.<br /><br />I sure wish some of those bookstores were still around.Graham Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01775285782385634486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-67501357283688004832011-08-24T14:06:10.481-05:002011-08-24T14:06:10.481-05:00Again, a very nice post, Mr Reasoner. "The Ca...Again, a very nice post, Mr Reasoner. "The Case of the Vanishing Bookstores" would be a suitable title for an anthology here.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-72094505020343516112011-08-24T14:04:45.108-05:002011-08-24T14:04:45.108-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-20797422402988773282011-08-24T11:01:48.853-05:002011-08-24T11:01:48.853-05:00Never been there but I got sad just reading about ...Never been there but I got sad just reading about it. So much is disappearing everywhere. Nostalgia reigns supreme too often in this old heart. Thanks for the memories I never had though.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12168568381694506602noreply@blogger.com