[net.books] Bookstores - origin of "B. Dalton"

wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (01/25/85)

Just out of curiosity: does anyone know if there ever was a "B. Dalton"?
If so, who or what was he/she/it?  Was there a little bookstore somewhere
run by "Bertha Dalton" that has mushroomed into the massive chain (or
are they franchises?) we see today? Or is it just a made-up name?

Will Martin

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