![]() The building houses a vast collection of material dating back to before the turn of the 20th century with substantial inventories of popular titles like Life, Look, The Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Time and Newsweek, the New Yorker and many others. Maurice Weiss for more than sixty years.Īnd caters to a varied clientele ranging from locals, students and tourists to set and costume designers, media professionals and collectors. Finally, in 1993 the shop moved to its current location at 920 Larkin Street between Geary and Post in a handsome old shopfront which had been the optometry shop of Dr. After its first decade, the shop moved south one block to 731 Larkin Street and occupied two storefronts for the next ten years. Over the intervening years, as used bookstores steadily reduced the space they once allotted to old magazines, this little shop flourished. And, it provided a place where magazines and books could be traded as well as bought or sold. The original idea was not only to offer back issues of popular magazines to readers, collectors and aficionados of print media but also to provide a place where fans of erotica of all stripes could find a wide range of old and current material. The owner and proprietor, Trent Dunphy, began with the front half of a small shop at 839 Larkin Street (currently the home of The Shooting Gallery alternative art space) with magazines standing in cardboard boxes on saw-horse tables. Dealing in back-date magazines, ephemera and erotica, opened in the Spring of 1973. ![]()
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