Possibilities has possibly packed up, padlocked and parted.
Last Month:
Today:
Notice that it’s next to a vacant storefront? That was another art gallery that closed back in August.
Tag Archives: Out Of Business
Will The Last One Leaving Turn Off The Lights?
Bistro Goes Bust
Central Ave – Bakery Or Restaurant?
In mid-September, a letter from the MRWPCA informed the bakery that it had been in the wrong billing category throughout the two and a half years of its operation. Under the assumption that it was preparing food off-site, its bimonthly water fee had been about $44. But because the bakery makes food in-house and serves meals on glassware, its new bimonthly bill would be $485. The letter also noted an unpaid sewer capacity fee of more than $19,000.
“I felt like I’ve been hit in the solar plexus,” says co-owner Tina Thompson, sitting at one of the bakery’s tables in a knitted red beret, munching on homemade hummus. “I would have never opened this place if they had been upfront about this.”
New Vacancies In New Monterey
Another Furniture store goes into “We Quit” mode. Will they stick around for the annual going out of business sale like the Lane store?
No Foul, No Loss – the rusty yard decor store moved to the Grove building in PG. This was at onetime a store that residents went to for small motor repair or power tools, Brody’s.
Art Galleries On The Wane?
Let’s hope so. Sitting empty (next to another storefront that’s been vacant since April) is Edward Welter gallery.
Some say that galleries really do nothing for the town’s economy. They are closed more than the are open and generate less sales tax than retail would.
Lane Furniture’s 2nd Annual Going Out Of Business Sale!
Clearance!! We Really Mean It This Time!! It had to happen, Lighthouse Avenue now has a perpetual store closing, liquidation, going out of business, quitting, lost our lease, emergency clearance store in the Lane Furniture location.
Back last winter they promised the store was closing . .
C’mon, Just admit it:
Hallmark Card Shop Quitting Business
What will we get in it’s place? Another art gallery? A bistro? Come on, think!
After a 34-year run, Pacific Grove’s Hallmark store is closing its doors.
Customers lined up throughout the day to take advantage of a closing sale which started Thursday morning. Most items in the shop, including greeting cards and gifts, were marked down 20 percent.
The shop’s last scheduled day of business will be Sept. 15.
Are those Day-glo posters still available? Seems they are getting passed around a lot . .
Empty Shops – Not Like The Good Old Days
Newly announced in the “out of business” club is Ariana Cafe.
Here’s the stated reason. . . . no place to potty or wash up after the fights.
Following the other thrift shops is the MCAP.
This Sucks – Vacuum store moving to C-Side.
Miller Brothers – was a ‘consignment store’. Certified Pre Owned used stuff.
Across the street is the vacant 115 Central.
Central Coast Credit Union.
Empty shop in the former Union 76 location. This building is a terrible design for facing a main street.
Vying for the title of longest running “Going Out Of Business” sale ever, Gaspers’ sale started last December. Look for their first annual “Going Out Of Business” sale coming soon.
Out of the race for title is the Lane Furniture store over in Monterey. Gahhh, please, please close already and take the da-glo posters away…
Empty Still – Since January.
Movie Mart
68 Skate
Stokes Gallery (though like most galleries it never seemed to be open anyway)
French Glass. What happened to this long time business?
Homescapes
Laundromat
Trotters
Maritas
SPCA Thrift Shop
Both of the movie theater buildings remain empty – Grove Theater
And Lighthouse Cinema
Of course we cannot leave out Old Bath House.
Prize for PG’s oldest empty business is the Valley National Bank.
Over on the Monterey end, there’s several properties that look all but abandoned. Quite trashy.
Birks Locksmith
Mack Stove
This was one of the numerous karate “schools” on the Avenue
Kalisa’s Closes. One More Landmark Lost
Nearly 50 years after she crossed the tracks and took over the site of what was once a bordello immortalized in John Steinbeck’s writing, the Queen of Cannery Row’s reign ends this week.
Kalisa Moore, 81, longtime owner of Kalisa’s, will close her doors Tuesday. The La Ida Cafe building where she’s fed and entertained guests since 1958, has been sold to local restaurateur Chris Shake, who plans to open a new cafe this spring.
Over five decades, as Cannery Row changed from an industrial area to a tourist mecca, Moore fed actors and writers, people down on their luck and others high on life at the two-story cafe and cabaret.
Kalisa, thanks for making my world an amazing place. Hi Riga!