my suburban bookstore

bookstores in the city generally suck… way overpriced and slim pickings. I love  used bookstores in the  burbs… you know, the ones in the backsides of dinky strip malls or in converted industrial areas… it’s a PH/BG family tradition to hit up these bookstores on Black Friday… once again, they did not disappoint…


this was published not too long ago… it was literally like 50 pages… so sad. Pre-internet boom, if you were “artistic”, your real world choices were limited to such unglamorous jobs such as typestter, copywriter, art teacher etc. it’s only in the last 10 years where “artistic types” have started making loot in the corporate world.


always amazed to see how many self-defense books were published. worth it alone for the title…


watch out for the double handfuls attack by man with strange head covering…


BLACKAU BIZNATCH!!!!!!!!!





back in high school, i probably would have pre’d seeing these albums in the 50 cent bin…


Boy Genius buys… that Ali cover is sick.


pick of the litter, this book of city logos


Berkeley logo looks like logo for new wave band…


look familiar?


my hometown…


LB looking tight…

check out My Suburban Mall while you’re at it….

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co-founder of the Lab. grew up in MD, splays in the EV... ends his thoughts in...
  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=208701662 Steve Flaig

    I love the shine you gave the Grand Rapids logo. Us Grand Rapids natives sometimes call it the Bloody Saber Tooth Pacman
    http://www.michiganamericashighfive.com/images/bloodysabertoothpacman.jpg

  • http://www.facebook.com/Janeremy Jeremy N Janell Trujillo

    PUEBLO REPRESENT!!! I’m from that small town haha!

  • Brandon Burke

    What is that book of city logos? (For real..)

    • ph

      not sure… my bro has it in cali…