File under "another one bites the dust":
The strong-willed Chinook bookshop in Colorado Springs, CO will close forever on its 45th anniversary.
When I was a wee lad, I often wandered down to the underground Pinocchio Books a few blocks from my parents' house in Pittsburgh. A few months after the first mega bookstore (a Barnes & Noble, which we had previously known only as a catalogue-based seller of remainders) moved in, Pinocchio closed. A store that sold Winne Ille Pu and a large assortment of Tintin comics, as well as a spectacular selection of children's books, I loved walking down there to browse and sometimes buy.
The shop moved to Boston, where it fared little better.