202-Year-Old Paris Bakery, City's Oldest, Forced to Close

[Posteritatis]

23. Been thinking the same thing from my own job today

I'm working on a project that involves researching the history of a lot of the big cargo and passenger shipping lines. It's weird seeing how many of the worldstriding giants of the turn of the 20th century are either no longer around, or are swallowed up by some impersonal compound of acronyms. A few of the old ones are still very much around, but as shadows of what they once were.

I know intellectually that that's always how it's been - the business that lasts fifty years is rare, one that lasts a century very much so, and ones going past that are very much few and far between. That's always been the case. It's still sad to see it happen though.

It's a smaller level in town, but a well-respected longish-running used bookstore got kicked out of the downtown core last year because the landlord doubled the rent. He didn't go out of business entirely - in fact, the bastard went and set up shop down the street from where I live, meaning my commute is a daily struggle not to just sign my paychecks over to him for convenience's sake - but it still makes me sad that that old downtown fixture, every bit the cliche of an eccentric used bookstore, is empty now.