Joe COLLEGE at the BOOK BARN - West Chester, PA. - Early 1960s
Baldwin's Book Barn,
850 Lenape Rd., Rte. 52,
West Chester, PA. USA. 19380
850 Lenape Rd., Rte. 52,
West Chester, PA. USA. 19380
Baldwin's Book Barn was just that: a huge old Chester County stone barn filled to the rafters with used & vintage antique books. The Country Store Museum was an added attraction.
From a Kodachrome Transparency
From a Kodachrome Transparency
I worked at the Book Barn while I was at West Chester University.
You could walk to the Barn from the WC campus. In those days it was a beautiful rural walk, past old homes and through what then reminded me of the English countryside. I doubt it's still that way today.
It was (is?) also a beautiful drive over to Chadd's Ford - Brandywine/Andrew Wyeth country.
From A Friend in Pennsylvania:
The car in your Book Barn photo is definitely a Ford, whose body looks identical to the make that Marion Crane used in driving to the Bates Motel (and which was later sunk in the neighboring bog) in Hitchcock's PSYCHO!
The car in your Book Barn photo is definitely a Ford, whose body looks identical to the make that Marion Crane used in driving to the Bates Motel (and which was later sunk in the neighboring bog) in Hitchcock's PSYCHO!
