Oma's Antiquarian Bookstore

Oma's Antiquarian Bookstore is, like the name implies, a second hand and antiquarian bookstore located on Main Street in Lower Duck Pond, in close proximity to Southwest University.
== History ==
Annemiek Dijkstra migrated to LDP from the Netherlands with her husband Jan in 1955 to study English Literature. She originally planned to become an author but when she got pregnant shortly after receiving her degree she put her plans on hold. While raising her two children Laura and Joost she started making plans to open an antiquarian bookstore since she remembered how hard it was to get her hands on good antiquarian books in university. One day in 1966, while strolling through town with her children, she saw an empty store that was up for lease on Main Street. She saw this as her one chance and rented the store and soon after opened an antiquarian bookstore under the name 'Tweedehands'. After realizing her English speaking clients struggled with the correct Dutch pronounciation and started to call it 'tweed hands' instead she quickly renamed it to 'Dijkstra's Antiquarian Bookstore.
She owned the bookstore for over 50 years, until she passed away unexpectedly in 2017 after suffering a stroke. Since she had bought the store in the meantime but none of her remaining relatives had an interest in continuing it remained more or less untouched for the next three years. This changed when her granddaughter Lottie who had had a very close relationship with her grandmother moved back to LDP after finishing her studies abroad in Oslo in late 2020. She was determined to reopen the bookstore and continue her legacy so over the next few month she put a lot of work into bringing the store back to shape. A couple months later Lottie finally felt like the shop was ready and announced the reopening on January 10th 2021, renaming it to 'Oma's Antiquarian Bookstore' to honour her grandmothers legacy.
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