Cities with canvas-covered open air book stalls??

[dsewell]

DU, help me out.

I've had one of those dreams where you wake up and can't figure out if the dream was totally imagination or based on reality. In the dream, I'm someplace where one or two city blocks are full of booksellers, selling books under canvas awnings. My sense is that this is a permanent installation, not a temporary book fair. I wake up thinking I've actually been there, but damned if I know where.

Does this exist? Am I psychic, or a loony?

[amazona]

1. paris, france

Sort of on a long bridge, they are even there in winter or the rain, just not so much.

[BrightKnight]

2. Paris

They have them along the river.

Paris is truly an enchanted place.

Some if the Parisians I have met were a bit abrasive. They probably say the same thing about people New Yorkers.

[dsewell]

3. Not Paris

I spent a summer in Paris years ago. The city in the dream was North American.

[amazona]

4. well don't you think your dream got the idea from paris...

...especially as you once lived there?

My dreams mix locations up all the time.

[hedda_foil]

5. Chicago has a book fair every year that looks like that.

The Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair is the largest outdoor literary event in the Midwest. More than 85,000 visitors flock to the Fair’s 200+ new, used and antiquarian booksellers. The Fair features over 100 literary programs on various stages, including panel discussions, readings, book signings, storytelling and theatrical performances, along with a children’s stage and culinary tent.

It's this weekend, in fact! Is this it?

[dsewell]

6. Not unless I have ESP

I haven't been in Chicago since 1990 or so, in the winter.

I guess it's just one of those too-convincing dreams that mixed up Paris, the 4th Ave fair in Tucson, and god knows what else...