A common question...
"How long have you been here?"
#BonnettsBooks has been in the same location since 1939. Stop in!
8/2/25 — Open 6-9p.
No open drinks, please.
#WorldsOldestComicShop
#DaytonsOldestBookstore
A night-time photo, dated April 1983, of Harold "Hal" Murray Bonnett smoking a cigar and bending to feed five orange and white stray cats in an alley behind Bonnett's Bookstore. Grass and weeds grow in the cracks of the concrete pavement around them. To the right is a dark-colored, crooked, and decaying wall of an old wooden garage with large metal hinges on it's doors. Across the doors is a large message painted in sloppy white lettering, "No Parking - Police Orders," and a small metal No Parking sign. A few of the feeding dishes are repurposed plastic and styrofoam inserts from 8 millimeter film-reel packaging.
Remembering Grandpa on his birthday.
5/12/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Harold "Hal" Murray Bonnett was a pulp writer from the 1930s through the '60s and founded Bonnett's in 1939. #BonnettsBooks is now #DaytonsOldestBookStore & #WorldsOldestComicShop.
Stop in!
Photo by Walter Bonnett.
