Bookstore Revelation

I live two blocks from the greatest independent bookstore in the entire universe, Vroman's. It's a Pasadena staple, been there forever, and if you're a book person this is the place to go. Forget Borders, forget Barnes and Noble, Vroman's is what those poser 'booksellers' want to be when they grow up. Yeah, Vroman's does have a coffee place attached to it, I forgive them.
   I was perusing the stacks the other day when I was witness to a great discovery, like when Galileo pointed his telescope at Jupiter and saw four moons. I watched a little kid discover The Little Rascals.
   The little boy was maybe eight - unless he was a really tall six-year-old - and he was dragging behind his mother who was scanning the stacks. He clearly wanted to be anywhere else doing anything else, but since he was eight he had to be with his mother. I felt for him, I recall many a trip to Sears with my own mother, where we'd spend ten minutes picking out pants for me and half an hour in the bra section for her. Pure torture.
   He was running his fingers down the line of books, not reading just occupying time, when he stopped short. He looked up at his mother and then picked up the book, which had the black-and-white pictures of The Little Rascals on the front. They were little kids, just like him, but in funny clothes and not in color. His mother moved on but he stayed there, flipping through the book, mesmerized.
   His mother came back, saw that he was actually reading a book and asked him about it. He showed it to her, and she explained the Little Rascals, how it was a very old movie series and something she liked when she was little. The boy looked up at her hopefully and asked if they could buy that book, and he beamed from ear to ear when his mother said yes. Later I saw them looking at the DVDs, no doubt trying to find the 'Our Gang' comedies.
   And so it begins, another generation hooked on Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat and all the rest of them. Now if we can only get them interested in the 'Abbot and Costello Meet...' monster movies we'll have accomplished something.