[1][3] There was a 300 year old oak tree that grew inside of the bookstore; it was removed due to it falling into the street.

[1] Born in Oxford, Indiana, in 1917,[1] Richard Bartindale was a World War II navigator for the United States Navy Reserve.

[4] After the war, Bartindale traveled across Europe; in Paris, he was inspired by the "open-air" style of bouquinistes.

[1] In the late 1960s, Bartindale and his family left Ojai, California, to travel to Oxford; ownership shifted to Gary Schlichter, a former landscaper, when he purchased the bookstore.

[1] Bart's Books appears at the start of Carl Hyndman's novel Bookstore on the Seine.