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Great piece (and wonderful photos) from Portland Mercury’s Blogtown on the new Alberta St. bookstore Ampersand Vintage, which opened this past November. Ampersand’s “mission is threefold”:
- as a specialty bookshop: provide a dynamic selection of art, photography & design books, both used & new.
- as cultural preservationists: buy & sell a dynamic mix of vintage photography, historic documents & eclectic ephemera.
- as an art gallery: host monthly shows by artists whose work lends to our obsessive investigation into the colliding point between now & then, past & present, vintage & contemporary.
The bookstore reminds me of one I ran into in San Francisco while on my honeymoon a couple years ago. I was wondering when a bookstore with this vibe was going to open up in Portland, it seemed like only a matter of time. I look forward to visiting Ampersand in the near future, profiling them further in a future post, and maybe getting Myles Hasselhorst (the owner) to sit down for an interview.
