Some storefronts in Nebraska give away nothing from the sidewalk. A plain brick front, a window stacked with spines, a door that sticks a little when you pull it.
Then you step through and realize the room keeps going, and going, and there are first editions sitting quietly between paperback westerns and a cookbook from the 1940s. Plan on losing an afternoon, because nobody walks out of a place like this in ten minutes.
A Brick Storefront in Omaha’s Old Market District
Red brick, an unassuming sign, and a display window so crowded with spines you can barely see through it. Jackson Street Booksellers sits on the edge of Omaha’s Old Market, where the streets still run on brick and the warehouse buildings have been converted into shops one by one.
The address is 1119 Jackson St, right in the thick of downtown Douglas County. Walk past it too quickly and you’d assume it was a small shop with a few shelves…