— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Viracocha, that antique shop for cool kids on Valencia at 20th, has a stack of Bay Area newspapers from the 1920s and '40s for ten bucks each. As you can imagine, the papers are an incredible read:
- “Holdup on Market Street!”
- The Board of Sups debate removing the rails from Market Street (2010 cyclists would be grateful).
- 14-year-old girl shoots “her boyish admirer after a quarrel.”
- “Don't do it!” was cited, in bold, as a “reason to live” given to a would-be suicide jumper.
Anyway, while digging through articles about killing Nazis and sunny weather, I came across this gem upon the front page of the April 20th, 1922 edition of The Bulletin:
Go while the gettin's good.
Comments (2)
Its a great presentation – a museum really, but I worry that it will never sell anything. And the staff is sorta aloof. More on the aloof hipsters and their predisposition toward doom… later.
i’ve been in this spot a bunch and never could figure out what they actually were selling. antiques? thanks for clearing that up for me.