Anchors

Half-Price Books is shutting its Berkeley store. It's such a downer. This building has been my anchor to Downtown Berkeley ever since coming here for the first time in 2017. Everything about this small city changed, the downtown landscape changed significantly but Half-Price and its neon signs had remained exactly as they were when I came here.

It just sucks that come December 2025, the city and the street would be devoid of this place, all this for a petty leasing dispute. It just shows the impermanence of things in our life, things could be thriving one day, and then suddenly for no major reason, and for nothing in our control they'd be gone.

Anyway, So long, and thanks for all the fish! 🫡