Down The Rabbit Hole
The promise of factory jobs originally led many people to the town of Muncie. Places of business shifted and changed throughout time. Businesses flourished and businesses dissolved. The Village is currently home to ‘White Rabbit Bookstore’. This building could appear as though it has always been home to thousands of books, but that was not always the [book]case.
White Rabbit Bookstore has been around for thirty years, but the building has been there since the twenties. It was originally a home. In the fifties it was a men’s clothing shop. In the sixties, it was home to a cookie and coffee shop. Later, it became a gift shop in the seventies. After that, a skateboard shop. The last business the building inhabited before becoming the current bookstore, was a portrait studio.
The Pizza place directly next to White Rabbit, ‘Greeks’ used to be a butcher shop and grocery store. According to legend, a butcher was working late one night and accidentally cut himself and bled to death in the store. It is said people have spotted his ghost in both White Rabbit and Greeks. Specifically, in the waitressing station.
The store itself is overflowing with books encasing every nook and cranny. The staircase leading up to the upstairs portion was introduced to the store in the fifties during a major remodel. It came from a factory. The previous staircase stretched into Greeks.
Currently, science fiction fantasy and classic books are their best sellers. They have many methods of collecting great additions to their store. They attend rummage sales, flea markets, and often times people will bring their collectables to the store itself.
