Unusual Market Street Store Kaplan’s to Close Doors
After decades of providing unique , hard-to-find items, specialty store Kaplan’s is planning to close it’s doors in 2014.
Zane Kaplan, founder and owner of the unusual Market Street store, is retiring and closing his doors, selling the location to make room for a small hotel. Kaplan, while moving forward without the business, is reluctant to call it quits. When someone had innocently remarked to him that it had been a nice run, he replied, “Not long enough.”
Representing the true essence of a niche market that strikingly similar elements from military surplus stores across the globe, Kaplan’s has been offering unique items to the people of the San Francisco Bay area from military surplus to strange oddities.
Within military surplus retailers, the stories associated with Kaplan’s and the significance of their closing can hit close to home.
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