04-10-2007, 11:45 PM
I actually only got inside Cody's S.F. once. It was earlier this year when I was helping my friend promote his book American Shaolin. I brought a Shaolin monk there to demostrate at his reading. It was a very nice store and I wish I had had the time to browse.
Quote:Cody's Books closing in S.F.http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=...type=books
Elizabeth Fernandez, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, April 5, 2007
(04-05) 15:57 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Cody's Books in San Francisco is closing, following on the heels of the closure of its legendary Berkeley flagship store on Telegraph Avenue in July.
The last day for the Stockton Street retail shop will be April 20.
"It just wasn't working,'' said a downcast Andy Ross, who owned Cody's for 30 years until its sale last year to a Japanese book distributor. He is now president of the company.
"It's a big store, it has a lot of overhead, it needed a lot of business. But it was not performing -- and dramatically so. At some point we had to say it's just not working.
"It's heartbreaking for me. It's not what I like to do, to close stores down.''
Cody's has one retail shop left, on Fourth Street in Berkeley.
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