About

We’re writing to invite you to a new used bookstore that has opened at 3215 Cherokee Street: The Archive. Several months ago, we cooperatively decided to establish a new bookstore on Cherokee Street to augment the literary and artistic culture that is burgeoning on the south side of St. Louis, MO, and to forge a new community space. Have you been to Cherokee Street lately?

Cherokee Street is creating a new paradigm for what City living can be. Our street runs through the most diverse neighborhood in the city. I don’t know of a better place to experience authentic Mexican food and chapbook madness, buy weird junk cheap, and brush shoulders with anarchists, dreamers, activists, revolutionaries, little old ladies and people just like you and me.

At the beginning of December, CELIA’s Yuletide Express and FIREDOG christened our new space with holiday classics and rock ‘n roll. The same night we hosted the Winter Show Collective’s annual performance. Amidst the breathtaking acrobatics of WILLY ZEP and others, we screened portions of “Atnas Akinah: The Adventures of Sainta’s Daughter,” by KELSEY LAPOINT, shot and edited by REBECCA RIVAS of the St. Louis American. LYNDSEY SCOTT, the co-writer, one of our favorite Cherokee artists, and C.A.M.P. Outreach and Events Coordinator said it best: “Sunday morning hugs smelled like campfire … everybody was still glowing from the embers shared. Packed out house shared harmonies young old …. I’ll go for that.”

Thanks to a nice RFT blog post, and a great blurb in Alive Magazine, our January preview night was packed! The vegetarian appetizers were top-notch! We featured the Hudson River landscape watercolors of JENNA BAUER, founder of South City Open Studio and Gallery and former SI. Louisan who moved to New York last fall, intricate assemblage boxes by CHRIS VODICKA and “Alternate Life Forms” the digital prints of WILLIAM SCOTT. Their work is fantastic; we’ve left it up for a little bit longer!