Among the various stores and markets, there is one area of commerce that I cannot remain indifferent to. I am referring to bookstores. Back in the days of my childhood, when there was no Internet or e-books, and even the TV could only show three programs (and much of the airtime was taken up by news and boring reports), bookstores and libraries opened up a huge world for us, they became a road to other countries and other times.
I photographed a homemade advertisement for a bookstore while walking down Marat Street. The cardboard reads, "Books to go, lots of books for the price of coffee. This is an antique store that sells old books. Here you can both buy and sell. If you have old but good books that you no longer need, you can bring them to this store to sell.
You can also bring old books and leave them in the book exchange locker. The text on the locker doors reads: "Books for Bookcrossing. Once you've read a book, let it go."
Pumpkins are not an essential attribute of Halloween in our country. Rather, pumpkins are a symbol of a bountiful autumn and a rich harvest. These pumpkins are used to advertise the restaurant in exactly that sense, as if they were saying, "come in, we have very good and varied food!"
But sometimes you can also see a pumpkin as a Halloween symbol - rare, but you can. I photographed this ad on Liteyny Prospect, and it advertises a bar with the name "Ugrumochnaya" - an untranslatable play on words used in the name, it combines the meanings "sullen, looking into a shot glass, gloomy drunkenness".
I didn't want to end my story on the somber note of a sad bar, so I decided to end with a picture of flowers. This is the entrance to a flower store. The vendors decided to use the warm, sunny day to let their merchandise enjoy some sunshine and to let for all the passersby to admire these flowers and plants.
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This is my entry for the #marketfriday challenge by @dswigle.
Books were my toys and libraries my playground when I was a kid
These days, I only wish I had more time to read
I have to agree they really bring you everywhere and anywhere ;D
That's a whole lotta pumpkin on the car - I just wonder if varied on the menu means all kinds of pumpkin dishes ;D
That was a fun little walk with your pics :D
That's right!
Thank you so much!
what a lovely wander, and story, love it. I find it quaint that there are a lot of things written in american English, why would that be @tatdt ?
Thanks to the Internet:)
Some traditions and concepts were absent from our daily lives, and they were borrowed entirely, along with the names. And it turned out to be very convenient: a lot of tourists from different countries come to our city, and signs like "coffee to go" are understood by everyone.
that makes sense @tatdt I have visted your city a couple of times and I love it, tbh I love Russia all over.
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When I was a teenager, I constantly hung out in old book stores, especially in search of old geographic maps, the time was right - the 1990s, people were selling all kinds of things. I was looking for cartographic gems ) And I found them sometimes. The oldest one is a large German atlas from the 1880s... Of course, I used to buy fiction books and, also, old postcards ...
Strange to have this luggage in the hands in our digital era... I can't understand even what I feel about these things - if I am proud of them or I am disappointed...
I loved those old bookstores: the search for pearls, and the smell of old paper... But I never found anything really rare, antique.