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Why doesn't every airport have such an area? There were plenty of seating units and places to, uh, well . . . recombobulate after the carryon-luggage deconstruction.
Another delightful find in Milwaukee's airport is Renaissance Books, a used bookstore with a magnificent selection. This is not your ordinary paperback-exchange kind of bookstore, but a genuine collection of old, out-of-print hardbacks, as well as newer, literary paperbacks and an enormous amount of tantalizing non-fiction. The owner told Hubby he thinks his is the only such store anywhere in a U.S. airport, "since most used-books found in airports are in the 'swap kind' of store." Check Renaissance out the next time you're in Beer-town, but don't let the unusual breadth and depth of its inventory cause you to miss your flight.
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That must be a new old book store, Sallie. I don't remember seeing it when I was in the Milwaukee airport three or four years ago.
Did you see the Marquette campus? I thought the expansion stunning--though I missed the old store on the corner of 12th and Wisconsin. I bought my last pack of cigarettes there many times--perhaps even my final last pack. But my fondest memory is of going over there when I was a student, on the day that the New Yorker published, and thumbing through the magazine looking for a J.D. Salinger story. And best of all, finding one
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