{"id":4423,"date":"2015-04-21T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2015-04-21T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:56:28","slug":"going-back-to-bonnetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2015\/04\/21\/going-back-to-bonnetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Going back to Bonnett’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the regular haunts in Dayton, Ohio, for folks attending the old Pulpcon or PulpFest<\/a> was just a few blocks down the street from the Convention Center. Bonnett’s Books<\/a> first opened its doors on East 5th Avenue in 1939.<\/p>\n

Seventy-six years later, Bonnett’s is still there (whereas PulpFest has moved about 70 miles east to Columbus).<\/p>\n

I happened to be in Dayton recently and had a chance to swing by Bonnett’s. I’d visited it a couple of times during my only other Dayton trip, for Pulpcon 35 in 2006. And I had remembered a photo on its wall.<\/p>\n

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Bonnett’s Book Store in 1941.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was taken in 1941 at the same 5th Avenue location, but when Bonnett’s billed itself as “Ohio’s Largest Dealers in Back-Issue Magazines.” And, boy, did they have a selection of back-issue magazines.<\/p>\n

Just look at those stacks of Spicy Mystery<\/em> pulps on that center table. As well as the pulps along the walls. You wouldn’t have had to pay full cover price for them, either.<\/p>\n

Kevin<\/a><\/strong> and Greg Bonnett<\/a><\/strong>, who own the store these days, gave me a copy of the photo. They had some printed out, and kept them in a folder by the cash register since getting a number of requests for them during the Pulpcon\/PulpFest days.<\/p>\n

(Their grandmother, Ruth Bonnett<\/strong>, is second from left in the photo, by the way. She and her husband, Hal Murray Bonnett<\/a><\/strong>, opened the store. Hal, as Kevin reminded me in an email, also wrote for the pulps — including Clues<\/em>, Detective Fiction Weekly<\/em> and Black Mask<\/em> — during the 1930s.)<\/p>\n

If you’re ever in the Dayton area, Bonnett’s is well worth a stop.<\/p>\n

I did purchase a couple of pulps during my visit. The Dime Mystery Magazine<\/em> that I picked up has a Bonnett’s stamp on the cover — that was the primary reason for that purchase.<\/p>\n

In addition to posting it above, I’ve also added the Bonnett’s picture to ThePulp.Net’s growing gallery of pulp photos<\/a>. This photo brings the total number of different<\/em> photos in the gallery to 98.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t explored the gallery recently, click on over<\/a> for a trip back to a period in history when fiction magazines covered the newsstands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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