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LakeForestLeaderDaily.com NEWS<br />
the lake forest leader | November 14, 2019 | 11<br />
Posted to LakeForestLeaderDaily.com 1 day ago<br />
Lake Forest Book Store celebrates 70 years in business<br />
Peter Kaspari, Editor<br />
The Lake Forest Book<br />
Store, one of the most<br />
well-known local businesses<br />
in Lake Forest, has<br />
been celebrating a milestone<br />
anniversary this year.<br />
In 1949, 70 years ago,<br />
the book store opened its<br />
doors on Western Avenue<br />
in downtown Lake Forest.<br />
And while the location<br />
has changed twice since its<br />
initial opening, the Lake<br />
Forest Book Store is still a<br />
major presence on Western<br />
Avenue, providing a wide<br />
book selection, a staff who<br />
can help with book recommendations,<br />
and a place to<br />
visit with favorite authors<br />
when they come to town<br />
for book discussions.<br />
Eleanor Thorn has been<br />
the book store’s owner for<br />
the past seven years.<br />
“It was opened by a<br />
group of women who<br />
decided that Lake Forest<br />
needed a book store,”<br />
Thorn said. “There was,<br />
I think around 10-12 of<br />
them. We opened in 1949<br />
and ever since then, it’s<br />
always been owned by<br />
women.”<br />
Many of the women<br />
have lived locally as well,<br />
she added.<br />
Thorn believes there are<br />
many qualities that set the<br />
Lake Forest Book Store<br />
apart from other book<br />
stores.<br />
“It’s a neighborhood<br />
book store,” she said. “We<br />
live here, we work here, so<br />
we know our customers,<br />
their friends, their neighbors.<br />
We get to know everybody,<br />
and we give them<br />
a personal experience.”<br />
Often times, visitors<br />
to the store will come in<br />
without any idea of what<br />
type of book they might<br />
want to buy, but after<br />
Lake Forest Book Store employee Beth Mynhier (left)<br />
speaks with customer Lee Gantz, of Lake Forest.<br />
Lake Forest Book Store owner Eleanor Thorn rings up a<br />
customer during the store’s 70th anniversary party.<br />
Cecilia Reformado, 2, of Lake Forest, browses the card<br />
collection at the Lake Forest Book Store.<br />
speaking with a staff member,<br />
they’ll end up with a<br />
recommendation, or maybe<br />
more than one.<br />
“The girls are so wellread,”<br />
Thorn said of her<br />
staff. “I think that they can<br />
recommend any book to<br />
anybody, whether they’re<br />
readers or non-readers.<br />
“There’s always something<br />
to give. It becomes<br />
a personal experience in<br />
here.”<br />
In an era where many<br />
people choose to shop<br />
Please see Book, 14<br />
Nancy Hamming, of Lake Forest, flips through a book at the Lake Forest Book Store<br />
during the store’s 70th anniversary party. Photos by Peter Kaspari/22nd Century Media<br />
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