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Entrance to the Half Price Books Northwest Highway, the corporate headquarters, on E. Northwest Highway in Dallas, Texas Half Price Books in Berkeley, California. Founders Ken Gjemre (1921-2002) and Pat Anderson opened the first store in 1972 in a former laundromat in Dallas, Texas, filling the shelves with 2,000 books out of their personal libraries. [5]
In 2018, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Prop. 47 led to a rise in the larceny theft rate by about 9 percent, compared to the 2014 rate. [34] By 2019, organized retail theft was on the rise. Police and store owners attributed it to Prop 47. [35]
[7] [8] In 1985, given the poor state of the Mid-Market, columnist Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle called the area "Le Grand Pissoir", [4] while a 2022 article in The San Francisco Standard called it "a forlorn cityscape of half-empty buildings, struggling storefronts and troubled people living on the streets". [5]
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It was designed to carry over many of the functions of its predecessors, while also serving in the capacity of a modern office building. It had a large meeting room (serving today as a bank) and an observation tower (not in existence today). It was one of the tallest buildings in the city at the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [3]
The store houses over 250,000 titles, as well as 60,000 available online. [2] After 30 years, Richard Savoy set up a ten-year buy-out for Green Apple Books & Music with three long-time employees. [citation needed] In 2014, Green Apple partnered with Le Video store on 9th street. The store was renamed Green Apple Books on the Park.
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Albeco, Inc., doing business as Mollie Stone's Markets, operates a small chain of nine supermarkets, located in the San Francisco Bay Area.Established in 1986 by Mike Stone and Dave Bennett (now retired), it has stores in the cities of Burlingame, Greenbrae, Palo Alto, San Bruno, San Mateo and Sausalito, and the Castro, Pacific Heights, and Twin Peaks neighborhoods of San Francisco.