RE: Re: RE: Re: co-ops

[Lisa & Ian Murray]

> A purely acedotal story. There was a really fine coop bookstore
> in Ann Arbor
> when I was in grad school in the 80s. It had existed for 15+
> years and had
> never made a late payment. TRhen one day, the banks pulled its
> credit and it
> could not but books. The building was later leased by a large commercial
> bookstore. which failed in the local competition; it's now a sort of mall
> with cheap furniture, etc., I believe. The suspicion was
> widespread, though
> unprovable, that the banks could not stand a successful cops taht
> was, among
> other things, represented by the IWW.
>
> --jks
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Didn't Borders Books get it's start in Ann Arbor?

Ian