In my early years, I lived in Echo Park. I went for long walks with Amok Bookstore being my main destination. The folks who worked there never much talked to me or my friends but they didn’t hate us either like other Silver Lake shop proprietors who gave us the “buy something or leave” look.
We appreciated their selection of radical literature, strange music guides and bizarre ephemera. There were no hipsters in the 90s but if there were, they’d probably like Amok.
The original location was right behind where Casbah Cafe is now.
You wrote in the past tense. I gather Amok Bookstore is no longer there. Too bad, I would have liked to have purchased a book there.