Nationwide more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running amp8220third placesamp8221 also known as amp8220great good places.amp8221 In his landmark work The Great Good Place Ray Oldenburg identified portrayed and promoted those third places. Now more than ten years after the original publication of that book the time has come to celebrate the many third places that dot the American landscape and foster civic life. With 20 blackandwhite photographs Celebrating the Third Place brings together fifteen firsthand accounts by proprietors of third places as well as appreciations by fans who have made spending time at these hangouts a regular part of their lives. Among the establishments profiled are a shopping center in Seattle a threehundredyearold tavern in Washington D.C. a garden shop in Amherst Massachusetts a coffeehouse in Raleigh North Carolina a bookstore in Traverse City Michigan and a restaurant in San Francisco.