Comments on: Faded Bricks, Bright Signs http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2006/05/16/faded-bricks-bright-signs/ Writer. Home Cook Extraordinaire. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:45:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: author http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2006/05/16/faded-bricks-bright-signs/#comment-1738 Wed, 17 May 2006 18:08:00 +0000 http://www.brookeparkhurst.com/2006/05/16/faded-bricks-bright-signs/#comment-1738 When I was about 15 (and obsessed with Scott and Zelda, Bunny Wilson, Max Perkins, etc, etc) I used to go to Scribner's bookstore (the groundfloor of the publishing house). Really a beautiful place, along the lines of Rizzoli on 57 Street but MUCH larger, better looking. It is said that when FSF saw his first book published and in the window, he burst into tears. Then it became a Benneton and is now (I think) a Sephora. But it was a great, great bookstore. Doubleday used to have its own bookstore (pre Barnes & Noble, etc) where Prada is now on Fifth Ave. Jackie Onassis used to come in there and shop and use her Doubleday employee discount card. When I was about 15 (and obsessed with Scott and Zelda, Bunny Wilson, Max Perkins, etc, etc) I used to go to Scribner’s bookstore (the groundfloor of the publishing house). Really a beautiful place, along the lines of Rizzoli on 57 Street but MUCH larger, better looking. It is said that when FSF saw his first book published and in the window, he burst into tears.

Then it became a Benneton and is now (I think) a Sephora. But it was a great, great bookstore. Doubleday used to have its own bookstore (pre Barnes & Noble, etc) where Prada is now on Fifth Ave. Jackie Onassis used to come in there and shop and use her Doubleday employee discount card.

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