Distractions on Haight Street in San Francisco is one of the famed neighborhood's oldest shops. Sunday was its last day in business.
SAN FRANCISCO -- For more than 40 years, Jim Siegel has been doing what he loves on Haight Street in San Francisco. Distractions, a legacy business, is one of the famed neighborhood's oldest shops. Sunday was his last day in business. 'It's bittersweet, I love the Haight Ashbury with all my heart. I opened up this business not to make money but to bring the Haight Ashbury back. It had very much been in a state of decline in the early 1970s,' Siegel said.
Tourists still haven't returned.His monthly rent is $7,000. 'Sales have been going down and I just realized I'm old and I was hoping some new blood would buy this store. I was trying to sell this store or give it to my employees and it needed to be reinvented a little bit and that isn't happening,' Siegel said.He said employees don't have enough money to keep the store going.On Sunday, everything in Distractions was half off.
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