{"id":3349,"date":"2012-03-30T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/the-book-nook-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T10:28:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:28:03","slug":"the-book-nook-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/30\/the-book-nook-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Nook Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkadvocate.com\/article\/20120329\/NEWS01\/120329013\/The-story-ending-Book-Nook\" target=\"_blank\">from The Newark Advocate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The story is ending for The Book Nook<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkadvocate.com\/article\/20120329\/NEWS01\/120329013\/The-story-ending-Book-Nook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"photo by Zach Gray\/The Advocate\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmsimg.newarkadvocate.com\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?Site=BF&amp;Date=20120329&amp;Category=NEWS01&amp;ArtNo=120329013&amp;Ref=AR&amp;MaxW=640&amp;Border=0&amp;The-story-ending-Book-Nook\" border=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEWARK \u2014 Bookworms in Licking County will have to find a new place for new and used books.<\/p>\n<p>After close to 40 years in Newark, The Book Nook, 225 S. 21st St., is expected to close its doors for the last time Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The independent bookstore was started in Newark in the early 1970s and offered used and new books and collectors\u2019 items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to close it,\u201d said owner Pat Luckeydoo. \u201cBut it was something we had to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luckeydoo, 60, said she is ready to retire and was unable to find anyone who wanted to buy the store. Closing the store went from being a last resort to a necessary decision, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will definitely miss the customers,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019d like them to know they were very special to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luckeydoo first visited The Book Nook to buy \u201cThe Baby-sitters Club\u201d books with her daughter, Michelle Petellier.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2001, Petellier and her friend, Melinda Hicks, bought the store from its previous owner. Several years later, Luckeydoo took over ownership.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkadvocate.com\/article\/20120329\/NEWS01\/120329013\/The-story-ending-Book-Nook\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Newark Advocate<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Newark Advocate The story is ending for The Book Nook NEWARK \u2014 Bookworms in Licking County will have to find a new place for new and used books. After close to 40 years in Newark, The Book Nook, 225 S. 21st St., is expected to close its doors for the last time Sunday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}