Powells actually with opened in the mid 1960s in chicago. Michael powell was going to college in chicago and opened up his first bookstore there. His dad, Walter Powell they were portland natives came out to run the store for two or three weeks while michael and his wife went on vacation. When walter returned to portland, he decided that what this city needed was a used bookstore. So in 1971 he opened up the first powells books here in portland, oregon. But it was actually the second powells books. Im standing in front of a column of books x this is sort of symbolic of all the things we have here at powells books. The base of it says four things in latin. It starts off with [speaking in native tongue] sell the book. And then on this side it says [speaking in native tongue] seize the book. And over here it says read the book and finally, our favorite,. [speaking in native tongue] buy the book. Well, what makes us unique is a combination of several things, and one of the most important o
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