BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Politics & Prose

DC -- Politics & Prose:

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Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.

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Description of Subject Matter: The Name:
The name was set when there was only Carla Cohen figuring out a niche for a new bookstore in Washington. How can we select a Washington-sounding name without being pretentious? It worked against us in the beginning, since customers thought we specialized—that we didn’t include cooking and children, poetry and travel. Now—well, it’s just our name.

The Goal:
Here’s what we said in our business plan twenty years ago: “The bookstore will offer superior service and unusual book choices; it will serve as a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books.”

The History:
Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade began in a small store at 5010 Connecticut in the autumn of 1984, by themselves and a part-time employee who worked at night. Before a year was up, there were two full-time employees. By 1988-89 there were a half-dozen and the store was bursting. We moved across the street to 5015 in the summer of 1989, and since then we have grown at intervals of every three years. We now occupy 10,000 square feet of sales space, and close to 13,000 feet, including offices and café. We have a staff of 50-55 (mostly) full-time employees.

The Merger:
In 1999, Jewell Stoddard, a partner in the Cheshire Cat, the preeminent children’s bookstore in the United States, decided to move in with Politics and Prose. Since the Cheshire Cat, 10 blocks up the street, was an inspiration for our “grown up” store, it was a perfect match, and Politics and Prose Children’s Department is now larger and sells more children’s books than Cheshire Cat did.

Today at Politics and Prose:
We have closely adhered to our original goals. Our staff loves books and enjoys helping customers find books they will enjoy reading. We see the store as a fun place to be, to shop, and to work in. We chat with customers. We urge them to sit down and look at books before they make a decision. We tell them what we know. We go the extra mile in trying to locate a book for a customer. We have ...More...
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- 2017_DC_PProse: DC -- Politics & Prose (1 photos from 2017)
- 2016_DC_PProse: DC -- Politics & Prose (35 photos from 2016)
- 2014_DC_PProse: DC -- Politics & Prose (6 photos from 2014)
- 2013_DC_PProse: DC -- Politics & Prose (24 photos from 2013)
- 2012_DC_PProse: DC -- Politics & Prose (8 photos from 2012)
- 2011_DC_PProse: DC -- Politics & Prose (22 photos from 2011)
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2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
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