Busvan for Bargains - Clement Street

Furniture Store

244 Clement St. - Inner Richmond - San Francisco 94118

About Busvan for Bargains

From a 2002 SFGATE article about the closing of Busvan for Bargains: A family business that will be history by summertime, Busvan has endured earthquakes of the geologic, economic and designer-fad kind. Early on, its owners found a successful formula offering part antique store, part value- priced furniture mart and part storehouse of local oddities. Busvan is a standout in ambience alone: the well-worn wooden floors, the gigantic funhouse clown head that's a genuine relic from Playland-at-the-Beach, the wall-mounted deer head with the earnest brown eyes and the sign that says "Credit Manager."

Wonderful furniture store. It was open for 56 years. As far as I know the sign on the downtown location (Battery at Vallejo) is still there or it was a couple of years ago. Closed in 2002; here’s the SFGate article: https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Quirky-S-F-furniture-store-to-close-2857449.php

Place suggestion from amacbride · 5 months ago

Status / History

Status

Closed

History

1920's – 2002

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Artist: Michael Pedroni

It appears the Busvan for Bargains location is still being used for some events. This is from a 2019 Richmond Review / Sunset Beacon article about an exhibit by artist Michael Pedroni in October / November 2019.

Oct 20, 2019

Added by Mike D (@mdoeff)

Added 5 months ago

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