All the Things... for you, your home and your family
Broome St. General Store is a luxury convenience shop located in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Open 7 days a week, 11 hours a day, we often joke that if 7-11 and your favorite luxury department store had a baby, it might look something like us. With an espresso bar, gourmet grocery and over 5000 items for sale and custom order, we believe in carrying best-in-class products in for you, your home and your family. Now online, we hope to bring the convenience of the products you need (and covet) with a commitment to our core company values: FAMILY. COFFEE. FREEDOM. We are a family-run business that is family-friendly, no matter its shape or size and regardless of who you love or call family. We work with other family businesses that hold those same beliefs. Some say coffee first, we almost agree...just right after family. Our coffee shop is the heartbeat of our General Store. Globally equalizing as a ritual in how it is prepared and shared, it is a universal cup of get shit done. A commodity where fair-trade has become a standard not just for conscience but quality. It has not just informed, but shaped the way we do business, the brands we partner with and the products we use in our home (that eventually end up in our shop). This was a dream born on road trips with my immigrant parents, eager to explore the country that was their new home. No matter the destination, all roads lead to a General Store. A place to gather supplies and souvenirs, ask for recommendations and grab a cup of joe. The pulse of their communities, it was usually our first stop. A spot for locals and tourists alike… no two were the same. After several years of roommate life and a few months following 9/11, I was looking for a fresh start and a place to call my own. I found that in a tiny studio loft on Broome St. I filled that apartment with all the goodness I found in shops from my neighborhood. Cutting across downtown Manhattan east to west and figuratively from Chinatown to Soho as a bustling cultural thoroughfare. Young entrepreneurs were squeezing their shops between established-family-businesses that had been core in the immigrant neighborhoods for as long as the communities have existed. It was a melting pot of entrepreneurship in the face of tragedy. In this little corner of the world, at that slice of the hourglass, was what I was trying to bottle under one roof at Broome St. General. With its roots in the original General Stores I visited as kid, our shop is literally a collection from my home to yours. Because we look for products in our own lives for function, we provide the convenience in suggestions that tack on investment, practicality and style to those decisions. Just like no two General Stores are the same, there is not one way to make a home or create a lifestyle. Maya Angelou said, “SUCCESS IS LIKING YOURSELF, LIKING WHAT YOU DO, AND LIKING HOW YOU DO IT.” Words to live by. We’re here to help with all the things you may need along the way and when you get there.
All right, we are shopping local again in our We're Open segment. That's right and t Our Rob Westerbe is here with more on that, Rob. Well, there probably isn't a soul in Hastings who doesn't know about the South Jefferson Street General Store. And if you Well, there are some t Our individual craftsmen that make t We have Junior Ranger Land, w Hastings Pewter Company and Hastings Candle Company, they'related and just two different divisions. We've got A&M laser gifts. They engrave all sorts of t Uncle Goose Blocks, Cherry Republic is from up north. We can't hardly keep that in stock. Mic And Polkadot Mitten Coasters, we have those there from Saga Tuck. Especially with the pandemic, we've gone through puzzles It's been crazy busy with puzzles. So I'll order some and then over a weekend we'll sell a dozen and that takes care of that problem. And we have U-gears. U-gears and Metal Earth are both, they're a little different. U-gears is made of wood. Metal Earth is obviously metal. And you just pop them out and it's a 3D puzzle. We A lot of times when they come in here, they say, What is that? We just don't really know what to say except that it's either the soaps, the lotions, the candles. During the shutdown and all of that, it was pretty tough. But as we started to open up, people started coming. And business has been really good since then. It's been amazing to see people that, they want to shop local. They want to buy somet They want to see their local towns not just survive. They want to see them thrive. That's been really great to see. Free gift wrap, free gift wrap on anyt We will mail t For Hastings, we're a great town. We're just a really great city. People come here because we've got a lot of small towns, small shops that are different t Even though it's only September, Jody recommends starting your holiday shopping early because the stuff they have now may not get replaced by the holidays due to supply problems. So for now, they have a great inventory. The website is generalstorehastings. com and they are at 118 South Jefferson Street in Hastings. Keep up with businesses that are open in West Mic Go to fox17online. com slash open. I'm Rob Westerby.
