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Family Bookshop Closing Down

Family Bookshop in Salmiya is sadly closing down for good. I previously posted that they had a court case against the owner of the building but it looks like they lost because they currently have a closing down clearance.

It’s worth passing by the store one final time as a farewell to what used to be one of the best bookshops in Kuwait. Bit by bit what’s left of our childhood is being eroded away which is depressing.

On a similar note Waleed toy store which is located in the same strip is also closing down. Like Family Bookshop, Waleed toy store has been there for over 30 years.

32 replies on “Family Bookshop Closing Down”

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!
They are not relocating? They are closing down for good!?
That sucks! An entire strip of shops that are now gone for good! Where are the days of shopping in 3alamiya and Waleed, getting a fakhfakheena then ending with Family Bookshop :'(

I feel that our childhood is now officially extinct!

They might have changed their name later, but in the 70s it was called “The Blue Danube” and it was owned by a Lebanese guy. This music store was the Virgin Megastore of it’s day and it was right next door to Barakat. Ask your dad.

There were 2: Toy World (just a few stores down from Waleed) and Toy Land (further down, where Al-Aqsa the video game store used to be). Oh man. I remember going to Toy Land to look at the 3DO and wish I had one.

pfffft i’m talking brand new in the box. and i do have games as well. also have a brand new snes in the box and my favorite, a brand new neogeo 😀

Correct me if I’m wrong, but was’nt the whole old Salmiya strip sold to Saud Sahood, whose turning it into a mega project, as claimed? Let me guess! A mall?

Omggg yeah this is soooo sad! Once i give the news to my older sis im pretty sure shes going to break down to tears :(… Archies and baby sittes club aand goosebumps ;(

Well I’m still 15 & I actually felt sad when Chicken Tikka closed down overthere. I used to visit that place everyday when I was small. Sigh 🙁

damn, should have visited Waleed and Family Bookshop :/ guess its childhood places gone without last farewell visit from me

It not about digital or paper it about childhood memories spending time looking for books or looking for past IGCSE past papers. Its been four years since ive been there i have to pass by if anything left of it.

nothing beats being an 80’s child.. I hate how in kuwait there is no consideration for history.

places such as mbarakiya.. old salmya.. youm il ba7ar should never be changed..

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