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PIP nostalgia... closed local businesses you loved
I'm having this crazy nostalgia for the bookstore that I loved as a child.
So... I'm thinking there's a thread there...
Sad about the decline of mom and pop businesses, the chain-ization of America.
Share PIP's of local businesses you loved, that are no more! You'd be surprised what you can find in a google search.
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I am the 99%.
I am the 99%.
Re: PIP nostalgia... closed local businesses you loved
This is Johnson's Bookstore:
They sold books, used and new (their used book selection was breathtaking - a whole floor of a building). They sold art and drafting supplies. And that was about it.
They had two buildings separated by an alley, with an underground tunnel between them. The used books were upstairs in the back building.
They put purchases in green paper bags, the color of the awning. You'd see people walking around with them and know they had books.
The store had unfinished wood flooring, it made this great sound when you walked on it. And the whole place smelled of old books.
They went out of business in 1998.
I am the 99%.
There was this little coffee shop called The Grounds Keeper. Great coffee, good food (their tuna sandwich was to DIE for). I would always go there on my days off for lunch.
They closed Jan. of last year citing too steep competition with another coffee shop up the road.
A month later THAT coffee shop closed.
There ALSO used to be a place called Java Vino that had not only coffee and food but wine and craft beer. I believe THAT also closed.
There's no longer any coffee shops downtown. Sad Panda.
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No PIP right now, but literally my favorite bar is currently "temporarily" closed. I don't have high hopes. What really sucks is that it was not their fault or due to lack of business in any way. They sub-let the bar/restaurant from the attached music venue (which owns the liquor license). The people they sub-let from were evicted/lost the lease/stopped paying. The owner let the bar (it's called Blue Palms Brew House) stay for a little while, but they are now trying to get a new tenant in, and they had to close. I think they might be renegotiating a lease directly with the owner, but they have to work out the liquor license thing, too.
They have 25 rotating beer taps, including a cask. They always have something I haven't had before. They offer 4 taster glasses (5 ounces each) for $9. They food is semi-decent (including a really nice, rotating cheese selection). The staff is awesome and they know us. And it's just the right amount of divey/not fancy.
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I'm not allowed to lament the demise of the Borders where I had many angsty high school conversations, while skipping church? Our borders was on the water, and it was awesome.
OK, my nostalgia will be for a shop that didn't close, but was sold. The original owner had moved there in the 60s, as did my grandparents and my dad. He was about 10 when they moved. The owner would always pinch his cheek and remind him of how she remembered him was he was "this tall."
My dad would take me in the shop, and she'd pull the same thing on my sister and me, while reminding us that she knew my dad when he was "this big." There was this little doll thing doing flips over a trapeze, over and over. As boring as it was going with my dad to look for charts and other marine tools, I loved that store.
Her husband died, she sold the shop, and is now the hostess at a club my grandparents belong to. Sure as shits, we saw her at Thanksgiving, and she told me she remembered my dad... I think all of us, including H, got a cheek pinch.
No good pics b/c the store still exists, in a different form, and it's a publishing business as well. Bluewater books and charts.
No PIP either but there was a wonderful grocery store back home (North suburbs of Pittsburgh) called Amarraca. Had to file bankruptcy because of Giant Eagle and other bigger grocery stores opening. It was so innovative though.
Had a butcher, smokehouse, the produce department would weigh your fruits/vegetables for you, had it's own gelato stand, if you couldn't find something on the self they would order it for you and call when it came in to the store. After you paid for your groceries, you'd leave them in the store, the clerk gave you a ticket, and you would pull you car around in the parking circle and the bagger would load your car for you.
It was always such a treat to go there!
Cody's bookstore on Telegraph. I would spend hours in there. The empty buliding makes me sad every time I walk by.
No pic, but Wall Berlin cafe. Freshman year every Sunday between the Simpsons and X-Files my friend and I would go and get Wall Berliners to enjoy with Mulder and Scully. Their sign was a piece of the Berlin Wall. It's a tea house now that I'm sure is plenty nice, but it makes me sad to walk by. At least until I get to the chili cheese fries next door.
This is going to be random but I think there's a bunch of RI'ers in here... Used to shop here with my mom all the time!
We used to go to Ann & Hope all the time!
For the Denverites...
No more petticoat bruncheon
There was a cookie shop in St. Paul about 2 blocks from my university. It technically still exists but it's special-order, call-ahead only now. Apparently you can't walk in and buy a single cookie anymore.
There was also an amazing Chinese restaurant in my BFE Minnesota hometown. It closed sometime in the mid-2000s and the building is now a dry cleaner. They made the most amazing egg rolls.
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High five. I came in here to post Pioneer Chicken. I can't believe someone else remembers it. My parents used to buy Pioneer Chicken and we'd get the cheap seats on the hill at the back of Hollywood Bowl and have a picnic. I had no idea any of them were still around. (And it's pointless because I gave up eating chicken, anyway.)
meshaliu, both of your examples are ones I miss all the time. The only thing about Wall Berlin I don't miss is that bathroom.