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Love the Oregon Trail and Powell's--it's a magical book place. I had a chance to work with one of the original Oregon Trail creators on a board game concept th

• throwup238 2y ago
  Powell's is great. On the top floor is a rare book room with tons of old books, including a copy of the Journals of Lewis & Clark in its original binding with all the maps in tact. They were the first to map the eastern and western river valleys that the Oregon trail crossed.
  • zerkten 2y ago
    They used to have an incredible technical bookstore a few blocks away. Sadly, it closed over 10 years ago.
    • wizardforhire 2y ago
      It moved to i think the forth floor and is as big as ever, just way more dense. But yes, in my younger years the technical bookstore over looking the park was a monument not to be missed.
      • ddingus 2y ago
        Yes, I recently rediscovered it. Man, in the 90's when I was learning about a lot of manufacturing processes, that tech book store was a gold mine! I would get the pre-computer era books and those contained all the manual, analytical geometry means and methods. Awesome skill builders for the time. I still use that stuff when making things sans a nice shop environment today. My first internet account was at techbooks.com ISP run on a Sun Sparc 10 and a few Linux boxes. I could dial in at 9600 baud, just smoking fast! Ahem. It became teleport.com later. Fun times. In any case, Powells books is very highly recommended.
      • incanus77 2y ago
        I miss the old computers on display, though.