It's business as usual at De Lauer's Super Newsstand, but on Thursday the ailing owner will close the door.
Posted on 06/25/2008 7:46:06 AM PDT by SmithL
In another sign that the printed word may be going the way of polar ice caps, the renowned 101-year-old De Lauer's newsstand on Broadway in Oakland is going out of business.
"We have to close," said Charles De Lauer, the 91-year-old proprietor whose father started the enterprise selling papers from small wagons in 1907. "Things just got too hard."
The 24-hour-a-day store that once sold newspapers and magazines from around the world will shut down at 6 a.m. Thursday, store manager Fasil Lemme said Tuesday.
"This is a business that time is passing by because everybody has a computer," said De Lauer's accountant Joe Churchward. "Your news is at the click of a button."
De Lauer's is located between 13th and 14th streets, in the heart of downtown near City Hall and just a few doors around the corner from the landmark Tribune Tower, abandoned by its namesake newspaper last year.
News of De Lauer's closing comes less than a week after the legendary Cody's Books in Berkeley shuttered the doors on its last incarnation on Shattuck Avenue.
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Too bad. I love these old places...
fallout?
What are folks gonna read on the ferry?
Nah. Places like that used to keep the doors open on the trade of the girly magazines in the back room. They never made money off newspapers and magazines. With all the porn anyone could ever want available for free on the internet, they can't compete.
Its in magazine places like this where a fellow can find important monthlies like “Practical Fishkeeping,”
Fear not: http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/home.php
De Lauer’s didn’t have a porn section.
I’m really gonna miss it as it was one of the few neat places I could walk to (I don’t drive) and you could always count on getting a taxi there.
Note the liberal socialist reading but not buying.
Or; Classic Bike.
Classic Bike:
I ride a Triumph with an Ace Cafe sticker on the windsceen.
Maybe he’s a free market capitalist who is just checking the value of the magazine before he plunks down his money.
It makes no difference how many blue NYT squares were put on the floor, the NYT is losing money and this place went out of business.
Sorry to hear about this.
It used to be that just about every town had one of these, maybe not as big, but the same general idea. My first entry into the world of consumerism was in a place like this.
One by one, they are dying off. It’s a bit of Americana that all those cookie cutter convenience stores can never replace.
Don't bet your state assigned high rise apartment on that.
I’m going to get a free apartment? Oh, (socialist) boy! Will it having running water? How about four walls?
LOL.
I remember those. Maroon color tank?
Black w/ gold script.
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