This is what it looks like when a bookstore closes down.  Depressing as fuck.  Le sigh.
 
 
Ghostbuster's 2 had a sweet bookstore in it called Ray's Occult Books. It specialized in bizarre, strange, and hard to find books (awesome!!). Remember it? Of course you do... 
I WANT THIS SHIRT!! 
 
 
"I was the original pioneer male exotic entertainer on the continent and for 8 years and entirely unique burlesque act while I fought in federal court to do it."
"My music is the boogie woogie blues piano based music vocal and I was good, I was naked on stage so I had a real novelty." 
You couldn't make this shit up if you tried. 
 
 
This man has sold books for 60 years, with no government support, threats of eviction and thieves trying to ruin his mission to educate the people. He has over 75,000 books and I even saw a Douglas Adams book in there. Smart and courageous man.
"This is my business for life. I know no other" 
 
 
Genius! If my day job doesn't work out I am so going to do this (in a warmer city). I'm not trying to sound insensitive, I feel sorry for the man, but he seems to be doing well under the circumstances. An entrepreneur! Love this guy! 
 
 
I have no idea if this guy is taking the piss, but it is amazing. Next paycheck I am travelling to wherever this is and tracking down this bookstore! How can you not want to support him?!

Things going through my head as I watched this:
1. I want that Star Trek book.
2. Please don't cry dude. 
3. ...they are my friends, my children... Amen! 
4. What exactly is a lunar rainbow? 
5. Custom package it, with love. 
6. Buy a book from me, or don't. 
Aaaaaaaamazing. Can he be my friend? 

Xx
 
 
What better to satisfy this girl's paranormal loving soul than a lost crypt in an ancient bookstore haunted by the ghost of a little boy? What, I ask you, what ?! Nothing- that is the answer, and I demand to go there now.... go go Gadget teleport....

shit.

Fine, then I will have to live vicariously through the old geezer in the picture then. Harumph. I need a sugar daddy/momma, any takers?
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So take a sec to read this article on this killer (teehee) bookstore:

"Close to the heart of the walled city of Chester, on Bridge Street, is Booklands bookshop whose stone-arched medieval crypt is allegedly home to a ghostly child. The shop occupies a three storey, Grade I listed, 17th-century building not far from Chester's central High Cross. But the lower ground floor is older still: the 13th-century stone crypt is built half into the earth, with the unique and unusual Rows walkways directly overhead.

Curiously, the ancient crypt was lost - bricked up and filled with rubble, until rediscovered by Victorian developers in the late 1800s. Now restored and brimming with books, it still retains an ancient air. At the rear of the crypt, beside the counter, is a narrow, half-hidden stone staircase leading to the upper storeys. Staff warily confirm that it's still haunted today by the ghost of a young apprentice boy who long ago fell to his death on the slippery stone. Though when asked if they've seen him, they refuse to say".

Cool eh! If the staff ain't willing to talk about it then shits gotta be bad, or amazing. I say we go check it out for ourselves. Up for it Kat?

XxX Cara