Staycations in Richardson
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This is the third in an occasional series of photos for which readers are challenged to identify the location where the photo was taken.
Jeffrey Weiss, in The Dallas Morning News Richardson blog, solicits ideas for "interesting and inexpensive" staycations in Richardson this summer. His first suggestion is to visit the China Town mall on Greenville Avenue, which "includes a bunch of Asian restaurants (including one Vietnamese and one Korean), a bakery, a couple of music and book stores, a couple of beauty salons, and a restaurant supply store where you can find Asian specialties like woks." If you're Chinese-American and already frequent this mall, this may not be much of a staycation, but if you're a white-bread European-American who can't tell the Chinese character for "woman" from a Picasso sketch of a woman, then get adventurous and make a trip to China Town over the summer.
In the same spirit, I offered a couple suggestions of my own. First, take in a Bollywood movie at Richardson's FunAsiA, "an interesting eco system of theaters showing Bollywood and other Indian language movies, banquet halls, radio stations and a magazine called as DesiPages." (Jeffrey Weiss ran with my suggestion, highlighting it in his own blog post "Hooray for Bollywood.")
But if Slumdog Millionaire is as close to Bollywood as you care to get, then how about seeking out and patronizing one of Richardson's non-traditional bookstores before Amazon.com drives them all out of business? Here's what a quick Internet search turned up, but be warned: businesses come and go and some of these bookstores might already be gone.
- World Bookstore
- Richland Bookstore
- Herald Book Store
- China Books & Arts
- Keith's Comics
- Half Price Books
- Medbooks
- Off Campus Books
Finally, if you want to get outdoors this summer, then how about going on a scavenger hunt for an Elderica Pine or a Lace Bark Elm or any of a couple dozen other species of trees found in Richardson? The City of Richardson conveniently provides maps. In today's photo challenge, readers are asked to identify the location of the Slash Pine in the photo above. As before, the first reader to supply the right answer wins a year's free subscription to "Ed Cognoski."
4 comments:
There's also Nerdbooks aka Nerdbooks.com. They're mostly internet based computer book store and they do ship all over the country, but you can go in and browse and visit with the bookstores' German Shepherd (who's almost always guarding the store from the comfort of one of the cushy arm chairs.
Thanks for the tip, Sherri. I love stores with their own pet dogs!
Ed, that tree may be found at the fire station at the corner of Plano Rd and Collins. I'll take cash value instead of the twenty annual payments.
Buckeye
Congratulations to Buckeye.
Why am I not surprised the challenge about trees was solved first by a reader named "Buckeye?"
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