The Twig Book Shop

In the early 1970's The Twig opened in the Quadrangle Mall on Broadway north of Loop 410 as a branch of Harris Smithson's L&M College Bookstore. I began work at The Twig in its Quadrangle location in the fall of 1976. In 1977 we moved to Castle Creek Village, a newly built center one block south of the intersection of Blanco and Loop 410.

In 1978 Harris Smithson acquired Higgins Bookstore in the Arcadia Grove Center on the East side of Broadway in Alamo Heights. Dr. and Mrs. Higgins had retired a few years earlier and sold to another owner who only briefly owned it. The original Mr. Higgins store had opened in 1960. In 1980 we moved the Blanco Rd store one block north to the Blanco Junction shopping center just across from Central Park Mall.