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• – Joel Sheldon, the majority shareholder, has been the steward of the business for almost 50 years and is interested in retiring from ownership of Vroman’s.
• – Vroman’s is here for the long-term. With the support of our community, we intend to be here one hundred years from now.
• – Bookstores are gathering places and have proven to be very resilient thanks to their communities. Bookstores are thriving all over the United States.
• – You can help by continuing to shop with us.
• – We believe that the right new ownership is out there, and we intend to take the time to find them.

For more detailed information and serious purchasing inquiries, please email: thefuture@vromansbookstore.com.

Book Soup Bookstore For Sale Text
To our Book Soup Customers and Community:
Book Soup has been a part of the Southern California bookselling community for nearly 50 years. Founded by Glenn Goldman in 1975, the “Bookseller to the Great and Infamous” counts legions of writers, readers, celebrities, artists, and musicians as a part of its storied history. When Glenn passed away in 2009, Vroman’s Bookstore was proud to continue his legacy and vision on the iconic Sunset Strip.
Both Vroman’s and Book Soup have had the privilege of inspiring imaginations and providing connections and community for generations.
Vroman’s current chairman, Joel Sheldon, will turn 80 this year and as he prepares to retire he is seeking new ownership for both Vroman’s and Book Soup. Joel believes the stores deserve new ownership with the vision, energy, and dedication necessary to take them successfully into the future.
While we don’t yet know who the new owner will be, our goal is to find someone who is dedicated to our employees and customers and who is committed to preserving Book Soup and Vroman’s for their communities.
We will will do everything possible to maintain business as usual while we go through the process of identifying the right new ownership. We made it through the height of the pandemic thanks to your support and need your continued support to help us successfully transition to new ownership and ensure the future of Book Soup.
Thank you to the many booksellers who have passed through the doors over the years. Book Soup would not have the legacy it does, without you.
While this may be a time of some uncertainty, it is also a time for optimism and excitement for the future. We can all look forward to the possibilities.
For more information, please email: thefuture@booksoup.com
With deep appreciation, Book Soup

Vroman’s Bookstore for sale Text
To our Vroman’s Customers and Community:
I want to thank our great Vroman’s customers for all of the support that you have shown us throughout the years and especially during our busy holiday season. It’s always heartening to see our stores filled with customers who love Vroman’s – many of whom have been shopping in our store for generations.
My family has been the steward of Vroman’s for over 100 years of its 130-year history. For almost 50 years, I have had the privilege of serving as Vroman’s owner and steward, preceded by generations of leadership by my father, grandfather, and uncles. As I approach my 80th birthday, it’s time to begin the process of retiring and finding new ownership outside of the Sheldon family. Vroman’s deserves new ownership with the vision, energy, and commitment necessary to take it successfully into the future.
I wanted to share this news with you, our valued customers, as we shepherd Vroman’s journey into the future. This was not an easy decision for me, but it is in the best interest of Vroman’s, our employees, our customers, my family, and our community.
My family has poured our hearts and lives into Vroman’s, and we want to see it continue for years to come. We will take the time needed to find the right new ownership — someone who shares our core values and who is committed to preserving Vroman’s as a community treasure. Our goal is to maintain business as usual and do our best to avoid any kind of disruption to our customers or employees.
In the meantime, we need your continued support. We made it through the height of the pandemic thanks to your commitment to shop Vroman’s and preserve it as a community treasure. We need your continued support to help us to successfully transition to new ownership and ensure our future.
I’d also like to thank our many employees, both current and past. We’ve been very fortunate to have such a talented and dedicated group over the many years who have helped make Vroman’s the special place it is.
While our ownership change will be a time of some uncertainty, it is also a time for optimism and excitement for what the future can bring for Vroman’s and our community. There is a myriad of possibilities, and we look forward to them all.
If you are interested in taking Vroman’s into the future, please email: thefuture@vromansbookstore.com for more information.
With deep gratitude, Joel Sheldon

Here is the official announcement regarding the future of @vromansbookstore and @booksoup. We are excited about the opportunities of the future and new ownership and we are DEFINITELY not closing. We appreciate your support in-person and online and we this community of West Hollywood and the world famous Sunset Strip!

More details at the link in our bio.

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Nosy Neighbors Coffee & Donuts | 80 S. Lake Avenue
Little by little Nosy Neighbors Coffee & Donuts transformed a forgotten about space into a small but delightful specialty coffee shop. Sharing the lime light is their amazing mini donut machine. At full speed they can make almost 1200 mini donuts per hour.

For more information, please visit Nosy Neighbors Coffee & Donuts.

If you are like most your email and cloud storage is filling up fast with pictures and email.

Apple and Google both prompt to increase storage, but at the same time you are overwhelmed with the space pictures and email takes.

The first thing to do is to stop the flood of emails into your email account.  Some may be spam some may be lists that you subscribed to years ago and just never unsubscribed from or some online store or other email you got on and forgot.

Watch your email for a day and as emails come in assess if you really need to be on that list.

You can try to use labels and tags and have email moved into folders, but for email that you really don’t need it moves it out of the way but still is taking space.  Best to look at the emails and if you really don’t need them, unsubscribe, search for all the emails from that sender in your inbox and review to make sure those all match what you want to delete, and then as in many cases there may be more than one page of those that match, select the option to select all those that match, then click the trash icon to delete, then go into the trash and review these are the ones you want to delete and if so, you can delete or they will auto delete in 30 days.

Then experience the freedom of not having a cluttered email inbox.

There are also other things you can do including searching the oldest emails and largest emails to see if there’s anything in there you need.

Washington Park Community House and Restroom -Project Completion and Ribbon
Cutting:
On January 13, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Washington Park, 700 E. Washington Boulevard, the
Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department will host the grand opening of the
Washington Park Community House. The grand opening will feature a ribbon cutting ceremony
followed by program demonstrations, info1mation booths, and activities for all ages to enjoy.

The new Washington Park Community House and Restroom facility includes a 1,627-square-foot
community house building with a multi-purpose room, gender-neutral restroom, accessible office for
recreation staff, and a separate 564-square-foot park restroom building with a maintenance storage
room. The facility also includes a 1,000-square-foot outdoor educational space, patio with seating,
new landscaped grounds, a renovated parking lot and Wi-Fi system.
Please see the attached memorandum from Tony Olmos, Director of Public Works and Koko
Panossian, Director of Parks, Recreation and Community Services which gives details on the project
and provides photos of the Community House and restroom.

Miguel Marquez, City Manager
Tony Olmos, P.E., Director of Public wo4!. C\
Koko Panossian, Director of Parks, Recreation and Community Services V

Washington Park Community House and Restroom – Project Completion
and Ribbon Cutting

The Parks, Recreation and Community Services (PRCS) Department will host the
grand opening of the Washington Park Community House on Jan. 13, 10 a.m. to noon,
at Washington Park, 700 E. Washington Blvd. The grand opening will feature a ribbon
cutting ceremony followed by program demonstrations, information booths, and
activities for all ages to enjoy.

The new Washington Park Community House and Restroom facility includes a 1,627-
square-foot community house building with a multi-purpose room, gender-neutral
restroom, accessible office for recreation staff, and a separate 564-square-foot park
restroom building with a maintenance storage room. The facility also includes a 1,000-
square-foot outdoor educational space, patio with seating, new landscaped grounds, a
renovated parking lot and Wi-Fi system.

Washington Park Master Plan was adopted by the City Council on November 22,
2004. The Master Plan includes the development of a new, approximately 2,000-
square-foot “Community House” to be located adjacent to the park’s existing parking
lot along Washington Boulevard. City Council fully funded the design of the
Washington Park Community House and Restroom project as part of the Fiscal Year
(FY) 2020 Capital Improvements Program (CIP) Budget.

The Public Works Department initiated conceptual design of the project in February
2020 in close collaboration with various community stakeholders, including Friends of
Washington Park and the City’s PRCS staff who operate community programs and
Washington Park Community House and Restroom – Project Completion and Ribbon Cutting
maintain the park. Multiple community meetings were noticed and held through the
design development of the project to receive input and maximize public programming
and use of the facility. Also, the Northwest Commission and Recreation and Parks
Commission both voted unanimously to support the concept design in September and
November 2020, respectively.

Upon City Council’s appropriation of construction funds in FY 2022, an official
groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 20, 2022 to celebrate the start of
construction. Construction of this $3.3 million facility was completed in December
2023, and PRCS staff have moved-in and prepared the new space for community use
and programming.

New Community House South Entrance and Outdoor Learning Space

Washington Park Community House and Restroom – Project Completion and Ribbon Cutting

New Community House East Entrance and Renovated Parking Lot

New Washington Park Restroom Building

This is the City of Pasadena web page for the project