{"id":360779,"date":"2026-06-14T22:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360779\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:36:25","slug":"oakland-bookstore-closes-after-over-2-decades-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360779\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland bookstore closes after over 2 decades \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of the \u201cGreat Good Place for Books\u201d bookstore in Oakland announced the store will close permanently on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The store located in the Montclair neighborhood has been a community hub for over two decades, hosting author events, various themed parties and building a loyal base of readers.<\/p>\n<p>But the owner says foot traffic never recovered after the COVID-19 pandemic, and the business is no longer financially sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>The store closed on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owners of the \u201cGreat Good Place for Books\u201d bookstore in Oakland announced the store will close permanently on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-360779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}