Newsletter 103 PDF - large print format - expanded ... - Uncle Hugo's

space to store books to a smaller place with a
lot less room for books, resulting in many bags
or boxes of books being brought to the Uncles.
This has been going on for many years, but we
recently had the largest batch we’ve ever seen
at Uncle Hugo’s. A customer who was a regular
for decades decided, back when cover prices were
going from $.75 up to $.95, that he wanted to
collect all the science fiction and fantasy
paperbacks every published. He picked up every
new paperback from our new release shelf for a
couple of decades, plus looking for used copies
of older books. About the time the cover prices
started hitting $3.95, he started being more
selective in his buying. After Scott Imes died
in 2001, the customer stopped coming in and
stopped collecting. Around the middle of July he
stopped in, told me that he was 72 and had
decided it was time to get rid of his
collection. Over the next few weeks I bought
almost 6000 used science fiction, fantasy, and
horror paperbacks from him, along with a few
hardcovers and trade paperbacks. There were a
lot of rare books in there that I remember
selling to him back in the 1970s, but there were
a few that I don’t remember ever having seen
before. Several hundred of the books have
already been snatched up by other customers, but
we still have huge amounts of hard-to-find
paperbacks clogging our aisles. Please stop by
and buy some.
Over a year ago the KFC franchisee for the Twin
Cities went bankrupt, and almost a year ago
Popeye’s bought 14 former KFC locations to turn