Olympia Books

Michigan · United States · Road

The building has been many things, including a funeral parlour. Mr Bock knocks books off the shelves, or stacks them neatly in front of the door.

The building in Dowagiac, Michigan is over a hundred years old and has housed a long list of businesses, among them a funeral parlour.

The bookshop's resident is called Mr Bock, after a name stencilled in the hallway leading up to the flat above.

What he does is specific and, in a bookshop, pointed. He knocks books off the shelves. Or he places them neatly in front of the door.

The strangest experience the owners record involved finding something on opening up one morning.

A presence named after a stencil is a good illustration of how these things start. Nobody knows who Bock was. Somebody read a name on a wall, gave it to whatever was moving the stock, and it stuck.

The shop is open and the staff will tell you about him.

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Where is Olympia Books located?

Olympia Books is in Michigan, United States.