We had a pretty fun day. We walked from downtown to the Hawthorne district. The Hawthorne district for the less informed is a small strip of odd shops, book stores, record stores, restaurants and cafes. It’s very quaint and we probably could’ve spent another week there searching through all the shops. Sam bought a bunch of new vinyls and cds and I held myself to two new books, ‘Slant’ by Greg Bear and ‘World’s Fair 1992′ by Robert Silverberg.

One shop we found was named Periodicals and contained an enormous selection of used books and old magazines. Sam found a few old Spin magazines containing articles on Elliott Smith, Kurt Cobain and Saddle Creek Records.

Another amazing little shop was Really Good Stuff way at the bottom of Hawthorne. They have an endless amount of knicknacks ranging from the below accordian to the lunch pails.

And since we are in the coffee capital of the world, the Northwest, it’s only fitting to tell you of a recent article I read. Starbucks has 8000 stores nationwide. The next highest is Caribou Coffee with 322! That’s quite a difference.