Posted on 12/23/2018 5:05:04 AM PST by Cecily
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco’s oldest department store, Gump’s, is closing its doors after 157 years in business.
Shoppers rummaged through what remained at the iconic store Thursday, with all items marked down 70 percent to 90 percent off.
Gump’s was founded in 1861 as a frame and mirror shop.
It transformed itself into an exclusive store, located in the city’s Union Square neighborhood, catering to a clientele that craved engraved note cards, crystal vases, fancy dinnerware and an array of luxury items.
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Generally, no. And with smaller family sizes they can inherit granny's silver, the boomer parent's silver, maybe one or two childless aunt's sliver, none of which will fit in with their lifestyle.
Momma always said ... you never knew what you were going to get there ...
Last of the big chocolate box stores?
All that stuff is so useless.
I told my wife, the inveterate shopper, both brick & mortar and on-line, about this, and she said that Gump’s going out of business was old news.
She also said that it was the bums hanging around the store that sealed its’ doom.
Meanwhile the other Gumps are about to become college football champions again, some things never change.
-—Lost out to Pottery Barn, no doubt....——
I would argue that Gumps lost out to Gumps.
How can you sell new expensive stuff when the same or nearly the same stuff goes begging on the second hand market? Old folks trying to liqidate there stuff learn their kids and grand kids don’t want it and there is pretty much nobody that wants it at any price.
was wondering the same..
“My wife and daughters like to buy from Pottery Barn.
Every time I have to put something from PB together or hang it on a wall, I am amazed at what total garbage it is.
There’s nothing at all good about it.”
I guess they’re settling for looking good from a distance?
bought some old English shaving cream there a few times in the 80s. Snobbish, expensive, but I was single and impressed the ladies who liked to shave a man.
+1!
We bought the Paladin DVD’s and the Hopalong Cassidy DVD’s.
Surprisingly, Hoppy was quicker to anger. He’d draw first and shoot without warning, whereas Paladin was a bit of a wimp.
That covered epis for upwards of 20 years.
What happened to the bad guy(s) "evolved" over that time.
So, Paladin was the late 1950s. Hopalong was early 1950s, but based on a much earlier defined character.
Not surprised.
I thought his post was entertaining enough. My advice, to complement his is paper plates, cups, plastic flatware.
I remember him!
Human feces in the streets to step in- and bums to step over.
Much cleaner to buy by internet these days
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