April 8, 2015
Quick, go take a look before they take it away, 2nd avenue
on the SE corner of 54th street, a window display that was...I thought I was
passing a bookstore, or an independent library, (an independent library, hmmm,
that's a good idea). The window display was made originally for Harrods
Department store in London, but when the marketing person of this establishment
saw the display, I'm told he said,
"I want it!" so adamantly that they got it. I passed the
window and did a double take, had to go back and look at it again.
If libraries had window displays like this one, there'd be a
lot more of us in there reading. The books, or similarities, were laid out
helter skelter, stacked high, piles of books everywhere, like on my living room
floor; the typewriter, yes typewriter, brought back the music of tapping keys,
and returning carriages. And the empty bottles once filled with amber warmth.... I lingered in front of the window display, daydreaming... nostalgic for the era, before television and computers and all things electronic... Oops, excuse me a second, there goes my phone!
