{"id":5918,"date":"2008-10-29T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:08:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:08:40","slug":"california-paper-reports-claremont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/california-paper-reports-claremont\/","title":{"rendered":"California paper reports Claremont store closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A micro-level market indicator we don&#8217;t see too much these days in the mainstream press: the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Inland Valley Daily Bulletin<\/span> reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybulletin.com\/ci_10841271\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">the closure this week of Comic Bookie in Claremont, Calif.<\/span><\/a> According to the report, the store has been open since Nov. 1, 1990, aptly characterized as the boom period for new shop openings. The piece suggests the store never recovered from its move to a smaller location, a 600-square-foot space in a business park.<\/p>\n<p>The piece quotes owner <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Chris Peterson<\/span>: &#8220;People say, &#8216;With the movies, you must be doing really well.&#8217; Actually, the last few years have been among the toughest I&#8217;ve had.&#8221; The report says the closure leaves three area stores: <span id=\"RDS_global\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Comic Madness<\/span> in Chino, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">4 Color Fantasies<\/span> in Rancho Cucamonga and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Funny Business<\/span> in Pomona.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t the mission of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Comics Chronicles<\/span> to detail every store opening and closure, but as I&#8217;m sifting reports from both the hobby and mass media, I want to pass along both good news and bad. It&#8217;s also helpful to look at reports from the trenches to see what events seem ascribable to local conditions, and what things might be part of a larger trend.<br \/>     <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A micro-level market indicator we don&#8217;t see too much these days in the mainstream press: the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reports on the closure this week of Comic Bookie in Claremont, Calif. According to the report, the store has been open since Nov. 1, 1990, aptly characterized as the boom period for new shop openings. &#8230; <a title=\"California paper reports Claremont store closure\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/california-paper-reports-claremont\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about California paper reports Claremont store closure\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[116,60,33],"class_list":["post-5918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics-shops","tag-media-reports","tag-state-of-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5919,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}