Hundreds Attend Elliott Bay 40th Anniversary Celebration

Elliott Bay owner Peter Aaron (left) with store founder Walt Carr at Sunday's celebration.

On Sunday, June 30, Peter Aaron, the owner of The Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, welcomed more than 400 people from the local community and various parts of the book industry, including store founder Walter Carr and ABA CEO Oren Teicher, to the bookstore’s 40^th anniversary celebration.

Offering congratulations on behalf of the American Booksellers Association, Teicher told those in attendance: “I know it hasn’t always been easy and Elliott Bay has struggled too, in the fiercely competitive world in which we live, but this store has survived and thrived because, in the end, a passion about books and a real sense of what community means permeate this space.

Peter Aaron addresses the crowd at Elliott Bay's anniversary celebration.

“Elliott Bay Book Company represents the very best of what happens when you put a lot of books together with some of the most knowledgeable and passionate booksellers you’d find anywhere. It almost happens invisibly but it does happen, hundreds and hundreds of times every day. That’s why this is an extraordinary store that sets a standard for bookstores all across the country to emulate.”

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