Location Of The First Book Store In San Francisco. Editorial Image

It is hard for many people today to imagine a time when one had to go to a store, just to buy a book. A time when there was no such thing as the internet and ease and simplicity of online ordering. But bookstores had been a community meeting place at one time, with each, independent store having its own character, like a type of neighborhood. And if there are multiple bookstores, someone had to have opened the very first one. In San Francisco that someone was John Hamilton Still, on what is now Walter Lum Place in Portsmouth Square.As seen in September 2021.