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Bird & Beckett Turns 25!

May 3, 2024 by Eric Whittington

Celebrating 25 Years

Drawing by Mateo Burch

A quarter-century ago, in May 1999, Bird & Beckett Books flung its doors open with reckless abandon, and somehow, some way, we’ve kept those doors open ever since. We’ll keep them open come hell or high water. But like Slim said to Steve in To Have and Have Not, it’s better when you help!

So help us out by joining the month-long 25th anniversary party at B&B… It’s pretty much always a party at B&B!

We’ve got 25 fantastic events scheduled for May–starting with a reading by poets James Cagney and Thomas Dunn on the 2nd and wrapping up with a performance by Red Fast Luck (David Boyce and PC Muñoz) in the late show on the 31st–and that’s nothing out of the ordinary around here!

Check our calendar!

Please do come down and celebrate with us!
Buy a book or catch a show!
Or do a lot of both!

Now there’s merch!
We’ve got T-SHIRTS and TOTE BAGS again–with a new 25th anniversary design, featuring art by Mateo Burch, screen printed by the fine folks at Fleet Wood on Clement. That’s the graphic–Mateo’s block print style rendering of our storefront–that you see at the top of this email.

It’s been too long since we had shirts and totes, but once again you can clothe yourself and haul your books ‘n victuals in Bird & Beckett swag as you meander the city or traipse the world! Send us your best photo of your own sweet self in B&B gear–whether it be on Muni or in the Mediterranean–and we’ll add it to our social media.

Eric Whittington behind the counter

Hot off the press from Bird & Beckett!
Dharma Pharmacy & Surf Shop, poems by Kevin Opstedal! This knock-out collection by the Venice-born, long-time Santa Cruz-based poet, publisher, and documenter of the dream, is now available! Come down to the shop and get one while they last.

It’s Bird & Beckett’s latest publication, in a long line of publications edited, designed, printed and bound, as per usual, by Nicholas James Whittington at Impart Ink–a knock-out piece of work done at Nick’s knock-about studio. While you’re at it, check out the rest of our small poetry books and little mags–and stay tuned for a release reading for Dharma Pharmacy & Surf Shop with Kevin Opstedal and friends sometime this spring or summer.

Big SALE on Bittersweet Memories!
We’ve got too many… memoirs, that is. We’ve cleaned up our memoir room way at the back of the store, and have built in some extra shelving to get things off the floor, but we’re still drowning in others’ sorrows, joys and malaises.

For the month of May, we’re discounting all used and new memoirs 25% in honor of our 25th Anniversary. (Luddites that we are–or perhaps we’re just sentimental–at Bird & Beckett we only apply discounts when you pay with cold, hard cash, so stop off at an ATM on your way to the shop.)

Pick up some art writing or used history while you’re back there! History is best when it’s used! Or maybe grab a book of poems when you emerge. Buy a memoir, and we’ll apply the same discount to one other book of your choosing from any section in the store.

Bird & Beckett Books and Records. Photo: Murray Schneider

B&B Luddites join the 21st Century!
Nothing but nothing beats seeing customers face to face in the shop, but if you live too far to visit and still want to send a little business our way or if you want to send a gift to somebody out in the hinterlands, you can now visit our online storefront at https://bookshop.org/shop/birdbeckett.

We’ll add some featured book lists as time goes on–starting with the proprietor’s 25 favorites, but you can use the search bar now if you’re looking for something in particular.

Can’t find it? Out of stock? Or just want to do things the old fashioned way? We’re still happy to take orders over the counter, on the phone, or via email. (Even email is “old fashioned” you say? So be it, we have been in business a long time, and it’s worked so far!)

Thanks for 25 years!
We’ll be here for another 25, thanks to you!

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IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES

Arlington Path Beautification
Saturday, July 19, 10 a.m. to noon
Meet at 300 Mateo (x Arlington) for an exciting day of weeding, watering, seed collecting.
Tools, gloves and good company provided.


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Monthly cleanup on the Greenway
First Saturday of the Month (usually)
Click here to learn more


Friends of Glen Canyon’s
Glen Canyon Habitat Restoration
Every third Saturday 9:30 a.m to noon
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Saturday’s Glen Park Greenway Work Party is Cancelled.

“I’m very sorry to say that
we have cancelled our Work Party for this Saturday July 12, along with all organized volunteer activity on the Greenway until further notice.
As you may have read in the news, our fiscal sponsor, San Francisco Parks Alliance (SFPA), has shut itself down. Just as SFPA has shut itself down, the Greenway, as an organized part of SFPA, has also been “shut down.” We are busy looking for a suitable alternative fiscal sponsor that is willing to replace SFPA. That search is going well but it is a slow process. We had hoped to find temporary ways to enable the Greenway project to function responsibly as a community activity without a fiscal sponsor. Sadly, despite our best efforts and the help of many others in Glen Park, we have failed. That is why we must cancel our Saturday Work Party and discontinue future work parties and other organized volunteer activity on the Greenway (like weeding and watering) until further notice. We recognize that the Greenway is public open space and that the organizers of the Greenway project have no control over the activities of you or of anyone else on the Greenway. However, if you do venture onto the Greenway to satisfy your urge for outdoor recreation, please be aware that your activity is not in any way organized or sanctioned by the organizers of the Glen Park Greenway project. I’m well aware of the efforts that many of the
Greenway’s supporters are making to get the Greenway organized with a new fiscal sponsor and I’m confident that this will be arranged within weeks or perhaps a few months.
However long it takes, I will contact you with news of our progress.
Many thanks for all that you do for the Greenway.”

Nicholas Dewar, volunteer Project Director

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Wonder what’s stopping just organizing it separate from that non-profit. It seems like the volunteers largely come from Glen Park.

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It was a beautiful day for the annual #july4th celebration on Laidley street!

📷: Photos courtesy of Michael Waldstein

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