Adobe Books to Maybe Possibly Shutter?
The Adobe bookshop (3166 16th Street), that beloved, cozy, second-hand shop on 16th Street with a backroom gallery, is facing some hard times. They have an alarming sign up in the window for a sale last week, and we had to inquire within what the story was. Must everything, in fact, go?
Owner Andrew McKinley told SFist, "I seriously am thinking about closing. It may not be for a couple of months. But bookselling is not going so well these days. And when I'm losing money I definitely think about closing."
If you care for this very bohemian San Franciscan space, with the handwritten names of various artists and local personalities who have had some connection there circling the upper walls, and the eclectic selection of books which were once arranged in order of color (and NPR did a piece on it), please drop by and buy a book. It's sort of like the Mission's answer to City Lights, and at 20+ years it's one of the oldest second-hand bookshops in the 'hood. Support one of the few of these institutions we still have left, or it may be gone soon.