Nearly every block presents a surprise, from a company that makes skullcaps to a Mexican bakery, from a feminist bookstore to an accordion shop.

One more restaurant earns a place on this fantasy street: Bloodroot in Bridgeport, the feminist vegetarian bookstore and cafe that is still going strong after 28 years.

In the last decade, it was what remained of a corner that once included a shop that sold crystals as well as a feminist bookstore and restaurant.

Charis is a popular feminist bookstore.

And when large chain bookstores and Amazon.com arrived, feminist bookstores suffered along with many other independent booksellers.

Amazon Bookstore Cooperative was a feminist bookstore located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that operated from 1970 to 2012.

Amazon became "the oldest independent feminist bookstore in North America" and was probably "the oldest in the English speaking world".

The feminist bookstore where "Portlandia" films is a real one called In Other Words.

The duo specializes in creating comedic short skits oftentimes about independent vocations such as one man shows, feminist bookstores, and bicycle rights activists.

The trio opened the store in response to the closure of Portland's only other feminist bookstore, A Woman's Space.