Who remembers Levitz Furniture store?
Levitz was located on Willow Pass Rd. in Concord, in Park & Shop, in the building currently occupied by Fry’s Electronics.
“You’ll love it at Levitz!”
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We bought our furniture there in 1986. We are moving it out of California tomorrow. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Hey chuckie the troll~
Yeah for You.
Are you going to keep in touch, here on Claycord?
Takes courage to pull up stakes. Congratulations. You won’t be the last either.
I will try to give my Bridge Report at least once a week. Not sure if it takes more courage to leave California or stay. There is serious turnover in my neighborhood. People leaving for Idaho, Nevada, Texas, Tennessee, Florida… in California it is come for the weather and stay for the taxes!
You will be missed. As I saw in San Francisco, the best people leave so what is left is the bad, or at least a worse average. Please let us know what the world is like outside of this place, like the tradeoffs of what is gained and lost. My neighbors just bailed out, too. This place keeps getting worse and worse. I wish I could move to 1985.
Chuckle the Troll- We moved out of Calif a year ago after living there for over 66 years. Finally decided to move due to the Liberal Politics, high cost of taxes, real estate and gas prices. Haven’t looked back yet and the only thing I miss are my friends. Fortunately I’ve made new friends and with e-mail and phone calls I’ve kept up with my Calif. friends. Good luck with your move and I’m sure you won’t regret it!
I remember the pallet racks stacked to the ceiling in the back, and electric forklifts running up and down the narrow aisles pulling furniture off the high stacks. The showroom used to be just in the front area and the warehouse was in the back. The opening to the warehouse area is still there at Fry’s, that’s the opening you walk through next to the coffee shop to get back to all the computer stuff.
The forklifts and the high stacks were always more interesting to me than Fry’s ever was.
Back in 1983 we bought a mirror for behind a door ($20) and a coffee table with rounded corners ($200), since the little one was starting to walk. That’s it.
A dystopian hellscape where women would torture men for hours staring at staging scenes separated along a endless dimly lit hallway. It was the IKEA of its day
In the late `80s, we found a beautiful dining room table in their back room. Since it had no chairs, they sold it for $89. We still have it.
♬ You’ll Love It At Levitz ♬
You nailed it Noj! Who said advertising
doesn’t work. I can still recall the jingle
they played on the radio for Park n’ Shop.
APR 21%….ridiculous.
I remember it, the owners reopened it as Furniture 2000 or something like that. They went out of business and reopened it again as something else.
I bought furniture their in 1983. I spent my “big” tax return and birthday money from my aunt on a sofa, coffee table and end table. I thought I was pretty special with my new sofa and laminated particle board tables. Sofa dies after about 10 years but I had those tables until I moved out of CA in 2017
New furniture is the biggest waste of money. Way better to buy used, Divorce, death, destitution. All three of those mean deals!!!!
We walked through Levits many times looking at stuff for our new house, ultimately purchasing two ornate mirrors and a large painting. Sales folk often recognized and greeted us.
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