Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation Evicts SF Booklovers' 'Institution'
By Peter Jamison
In a section of the Tenderloin just off Market Street and 5th, where check-cashing outfits and strip clubs give way to desolate, garbage-littered streets, is the kind of store that San Franciscans love to say they love. It's McDonald's Bookshop, an emporium of more than a million used books, magazines and records that's been doing business on Turk Street since 1926. In its cavernous reading roo
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By Peter Jamison
Transporting a collection of books, records and periodicals that
purportedly surpasses 1 million volumes is no small feat. Imagine doing
so on a litter-strewn block in one of the city's worst neighborhoods,
dodging local toughs and zig-zagging wheelchairs at every step,
and you've got the case of McDonald's Bookshop owner Itzhak Volansky.
Evicted from his cavernous Turk Street shop earlier this month by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation,
Volansky is suppose
Itzhak Volansky insists he isn't much interested in books, or the bookstore he owns. That disinterest is one reason McDonald's Books has become an enormous, wonderful, disordered phantasmagoria that attracts a wonderfully eccentric clientele. And who real
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