Hillcrest's Corvette Diner and Kemo Sabe restaurants-David and Lesley Cohn. Offered a chance to buy the Blue Door in 1987, he jumped at it. Don't ask Stoup about business these days. Revenues are down 35 percent. Still, he vows he won't sell out to commercialism, so don't expect to find Danielle Steele among his inventory anytime soon.
Many people live near their stores.
We know all the street people-which ones might be dangerous and which ones are not. When one store goes out of business, we all genuinely feel saddened. Because we live here, we are careful to keep the area clean. That's not the case with the national chains moving in. I called the Seattle headquarters of Starbucks twice to get them to have somebody sweep the sidewalks in front of one of the stores here.