Talk:Bakka-Phoenix

Emphasis on new books
The store retained its strong emphasis on used books until its move to Yonge Street, long after Jack Brooks left. In fact, in the years after Jack, the store's credit with book publishers was so bad that we often relied exclusively on used books to pay the rent, because we could get so few new books in. Bakka's regulars were very helpful during this period, bringing in their used books as trade-ins for credit, so that we could sell them for cash.

When Bakka moved up to Yonge and Wellesley, the reduced floorspace meant that most of the used stock had to go, and thereafter its prominence at Bakka dwindled. But the reduction in used emphasis was not due to Jack's departure.

Doctorow (talk) 15:25, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Second branch
Bakka originally was a double-sized store, with books in the right-hand side as you came in, and comics in the left-hand side of the store. Briefly, it expanded to a second location on the west side of Yonge Street north of Bloor. I shopped there regularly in the summer of 1978. There were fewer comics, just a rack or so; but the store had a large selection of mystery/detective stories in the rear half of the store as well as SF/fantasy in the front.

I always reckoned they'd over-extended, because suddenly the second location closed and the first one halved itself to just the SF/fantasy side of the store. From what it says in this article, though, that may have been when the Silver Snail started. Greer Watson (talk) 09:34, 1 February 2012 (UTC)