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Tattered Cover hide caption. Over the past four decades, Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, Colo. And the people are friendly Meskis left is handing the reins to Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan not pictured , who both spent years working for the American Booksellers Association.
Denver's Tattered Cover Bookstore Is Focused On Succession, Not Just Survival
That atmosphere is a personal reflection of Joyce Meskis, the store's longtime owner. Back in the mids, Meskis designed a bookstore where she would want to shop: I wanted service sometimes. Sometimes I just wanted to be by myself. It's nothing more than treating the customer as you'd want to be treated. Now, after more than 40 years at the helm, Meskis is preparing to retire, and she's selling the store to a pair of publishing industry veterans. Tattered Cover customers have been fiercely loyal through past transitions.
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Years ago, when the store moved across the street, hundreds of customers helped lug boxes of books. Incoming owners Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan both spent years working for the American Booksellers Association — a retail trade group — and they dreamed of owning their own store someday.
They imagined buying the bookstore equivalent of a minor league baseball team, but say taking over the Tattered Cover is like running the New York Yankees. When she stepped into the Western History alcove, she could feel her eyes trying to shut out what she was seeing: Joey, hovering in the air, swinging like a pendulum.
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