According to the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer, 1894, “in Australia and the United States, youths of colonial birth are so called from being generally both taller and more slender than their parents.” Naturally when in 1979 Paul Feian began a bookshop specialising in Australiana he called it Cornstalk. You can spend a lot of your time on his site, or in his shop with its amazing rickety staircase and floorboards which look in places as if they might collapse under you – but they haven’t in thirty years.
That’s Paul at work outside his shop.
The upstairs room holds memories for me: see Glebe revisited.
I love the shop fronts you are showing. So different from other places in Sydney.
Comment by Julie — July 24, 2009 @ 6:26 am
Books, books, books – who doesn’t like books?! I love to read to my daughters and it’s important to read to kids! I suppose I sound like a former teacher?
Comment by leif hagen — July 24, 2009 @ 6:48 am
@Julie: yes, one of the great charms of Glebe.
@Leif: I suppose I photograph like a former teacher as well.
Comment by Neil — July 24, 2009 @ 8:58 am