central avenue, and they enjoyed a boom after the war, immediately after the war, my father-in-law charles haslam took a job with jc penny and took an opportunity to accept his folk's invitation to join the business, and he did the expanding into the new books and did the same for my wife and i. in 1973, i was stationed at the pentagon and accepted an invitation to join the family business. we expanded it sense that time into the size that you see now, and engaged in both in new book selling and iced book sell -- used book selling. it was a unique arrangement in a city and town this size. it was at that juncture you started to see the beginning of the chains and after a decade or so, the beginning of the superstores. there's certainly a flatness if not a lessening in sales of books nationally. whether it's the economic time or the change in the culture, i'm inclined to think it's both, but it's cyclical in nature, and it will change just like before. i think the interesting part is the fact that there are cycles, and it's looking at a time in which there wasn't proliferation of the large stores w