This bookstore initially started as a small kiosk in the Pike Place Market and mostly sold pins and bumper stickers. Slowly and steadily, its collection expanded from to a wide range of new as well as used books, periodicals, zines, T-shirts, patches, postcards, note cards, posters, etc.

http://www.leftbankbooks.com/store/History

Two other projects that were included as a part of the expansion of Left Bank Books in 80's and 90's were:

- AKA Books, a used bookstore in Seattle's University District Area

- Left Bank Distribution targeting whole sale distribution

Left bank Bookstore is collectively owned and operated by its workers and through the years it continues to thrive at the Pike Place Market Storefront.

http://www.leftbankbooks.com/store/?&cookieSet=1

The Adventure Day Care Center lays emphasis on ensuring that children indulge in different adventurous activities. The focus is on implementing hands-on, messy, three-dimensional, self-directed and several other creative activities. The most important priority for this day care center is the relationships:

http://www.adventuredaycare.com/location.html

At Adventure Day Care Center, the prime emphasis is laid on natural play as well in carving out neural pathways of children for enhancing their cognitive development, language acquisition, problem-solving, thinking, planning, recall as well as creativity.

Nurturing of the children is focused upon with respect to their qualities related to curiosity, concentration, sensory awareness and compassion. The adventure care day center also schedules field trips several times in a year.