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Article: DeLauer's Super Newsstand loses night-owl hours
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- July 10, 2008
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Playboy just isn't the same online, especially after 3 a.m.
But no more will customers browse saucy girlie magazines, Indian
Country Today newspapers, arcane collectors guides or romance novels
past the stroke of midnight.
After 101 years, DeLauer's will no longer be a super newsstand,
or much of a newsstand at all compared with the halcyon analog days
when the Internet was fantasy and Oakland residents lined up Sundays
to buy The New York Times.
The new owners, who will keep the DeLauer's name, plan to convert
the 1310 Broadway store into an Internet cafe with good coffee and
more regular hours.
It's the end of a fluorescent-lit, late-night era when Oakland's
downtown hummed after sunset.
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