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> Another fun moment was visiting a bookstore/cafe/literacy center in New Orleans and picking up a self-published game there… If you are referring to Iron Rail

> Another fun moment was visiting a bookstore/cafe/literacy center in New Orleans and picking up a self-published game there… If you are referring to Iron Rail I am afraid it has been closed for a while. Neutral Ground is still around but not a bookstore.

dhosek 4y ago
I’d have a hard time remembering what it was called—this was 31 years ago. I remember loving the concept and wanting to open something similar in Southern California (all I lacked was the time, money and ability). Nowadays, I support the somewhat similar in mission Open Books here in Chicago (whose main bookstore is in the same building as my current employer). What I remember was that their main clients for the literacy services were crew members from cargo ships.
- selimthegrim 4y ago
  Ah this sounds like the Norwegian Seamen's Church (closed in 2018)
  - dhosek 4y ago
    I don’t think that was it: they advertised themselves as a bookstore.
    - dhosek 4y ago
      Googling it, it definitely was not the Norwegian Seaman’s Church. They had a regular storefront (I think it was actually two adjacent retail spaces connected with a opening in the wall near the back).