Nice tribute to Northtown Books, Hank. But I would think that the store can and will be replaced. A different building, of course, but all those books are new and …

The history of that building is worth an indepth article. So many local businesses had their start in that building. There is a wealth of information about it on the …

Northtown Books was the first business I spent money and met locals in. It made me love the idea of being on the coast with this variety of humans with …

Northtown Books was in the front part (the retail section) of Seely and Titlow and Hensel’s was where the back of the shop and inventory was kept.

what a bummer

Kym Kemp had a great live feed. If you watched it you wouldn’t have had to be one of the people getting in the way of incoming resources trying to …

All structures in the immediate area are heirlooms of time past in Arcata. Seely & Titlow were in that building and all us ole’timers did business there and many worked …

It deeply saddens me that the Christmas presents I just bought there will be the last I ever do, at least in the form I grew up knowing it.I have …

I’ll bet you a cold beverage of your choice. Your pick on location

Yes, the blue building with the fairly new murals.

The first video shows the buildings, at the top of the article.

And they just opened there a couple of months ago. I hope everyone had insurance.

Terrible. Really sad for Dandar’s. A good store with really nice owners.

Not a neighboring building, whereas Northtown Books is part of the row that is threatened.

Redheaded Blackbelt has pics of Northtown. It does not look promising.Dandars Board Games, which it shares a wall with, is nothing but a charred hole, so Northtown is probably gone …

The way the wind is blowing there’s not much risk. Northtown is gone.

It’s gone; everything north of the alley is gone.

It’s gone. There may have been ugly crying.

Wonder if Tin Can Mailman Books is threatened as it is even closer to the fire than Northtown Books.

So sad to see our old location for Humboldt Clothing Co at 987 H St up in flames. I was just talking to the owner of the building this morning …

are you saying for sure, Northtown was hit?

prayers for everyone and local businesses - and special thoughts for Northtown Books- a center of our local commons. Take care Dante and all.

Arcata 💔

The apartments above the former dry cleaners on the corner of 10th and H?

The north half of the block from Northtown Books (RIP) to 10th St.

The last time Hensels went up, all the paint and paint thinner went up too, and there wasn’t much the Afd could do. If this is the case again, it …

One ambulance left the scene with siren, appeared to head south on 101.

From my view site, it’s the building at 10th & H, east of Hensel’s Seely & Titlo building. It looks like it’s spread to the building south on H St. …

I doubt it.

I guess the Orange Buffoon and the traveling circus that is now called our Government forgot who got them elected. It was blue collar workers all over this country, not …