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900 Battery Street |
For the better
part of 60 years, Busvan for Bargains was San Francisco's favorite
retailer of ready-to-assemble shelves, bookcases, and TV stands, as well
as sofas and other furniture. For apartment dwellers and first time homeowners
not yet through the salad days but ready to trade up from milk crate chic,
Busvan filled the void between used items or department store junk and
high end decorator furniture. Both the 72,000 square feet store on Battery
Street and the smaller 244 Clement Street location were always fun and
funky. Both contained unique antiques in addition to the (un)usual Busvan
inventory. The family business announced its impending closure in the spring
of 2002.
Both Busvan locations displayed one of the nine automatonic clowns that were totems of the Fun House at Playland at the Beach. Choose the link to see one of these amazing artifacts (583k).
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Copyright 2002 Hank Donat |