[ggillas]

Love the Oregon Trail and Powell's--it's a magical book place.

I had a chance to work with one of the original Oregon Trail creators on a board game concept these past three years. Don is a true pleasure to work with and has a sharp mind plus great stories. Highly recommend HN folks look up his GDC talk or send him some work (he's open to select projects) https://www.linkedin.com/in/donrawitsch/

[throwup238]

Powell's is great. On the top floor is a rare book room with tons of old books, including a copy of the Journals of Lewis & Clark in its original binding with all the maps in tact. They were the first to map the eastern and western river valleys that the Oregon trail crossed.

[zerkten]

They used to have an incredible technical bookstore a few blocks away. Sadly, it closed over 10 years ago.

[wizardforhire]

It moved to i think the forth floor and is as big as ever, just way more dense. But yes, in my younger years the technical bookstore over looking the park was a monument not to be missed.

[ddingus]

Yes, I recently rediscovered it.

Man, in the 90's when I was learning about a lot of manufacturing processes, that tech book store was a gold mine!

I would get the pre-computer era books and those contained all the manual, analytical geometry means and methods. Awesome skill builders for the time.

I still use that stuff when making things sans a nice shop environment today.

My first internet account was at techbooks.com

ISP run on a Sun Sparc 10 and a few Linux boxes. I could dial in at 9600 baud, just smoking fast! Ahem.

It became teleport.com later.

Fun times.

In any case, Powells books is very highly recommended.

[incanus77]

I miss the old computers on display, though.