Comments on Bookride: where do you get these books? 5

My fave dumpster story involves movie memorabilia....

2008-08-20T00:25:08.989Z

My fave dumpster story involves movie memorabilia. Seems National Screen, who used to handle most of the poster and promo work were shutting down in a Southern California town. The local movie buffs found out and proceeded to the dumpster where they began filling their cars up with all kinds of goodies. That is, until a secretary spotted what they were doing and phoned the police. She even blocked the parking lot and refused to let them leave until they emptied their cars back into the dumpster.
They snuck back later that night and discovered a security guard standing next to the dumpster.

Thanks Fnarf--kind of thing that would send Nichol...

2008-08-19T23:10:57.632Z

Thanks Fnarf--kind of thing that would send Nicholson Baker mental, he got very worked up about library filing cards but dumspters full of books...one wonders from a dealers point of view if there was anything valuable in there. Never forget the enemies of books are --fire, water, children and librarians. N

Nothing to do with bookselling, but there was a fa...

2008-08-18T23:29:28.884Z

Nothing to do with bookselling, but there was a famous incident some years ago after San Francisco's spiffy new main public library opened, with miles less book space than the old one, a fact discovered when some passerby found tens of thousands of volumes in their dumpster.