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Copy Link >> https://getpdf.readbooks.link/yupu/1944211829 &quotThe story: back in 2002, some friends in San Francisco had an idea for a youth writing and tutoring center. They rented a building for this purpose, only to learn that the address was zoned for retail they could do their writing and tutoring, sure, but they had to sell something in the front of the building. So they decided to sell pirate supplies, and to decorate the storefront as if it were a real shop for working buccaneers. It

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&quotThe story: back in 2002, some friends in San Francisco had an idea for a youth writing and tutoring center. They rented a building for this purpose, only to learn that the address was zoned for retail they could do their writing and tutoring, sure, but they had to sell something in the front of the building. So they decided to sell pirate supplies, and to decorate the storefront as if it were a real shop for working buccaneers. It

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Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young

Minds on Fire: How 826 Valencia, and Dozens

of Centers Like It, Got Built - and Why

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&quotThestory: back in 2002, some friends in San Francisco

had an idea for a youth writing and tutoring center. They

rented a building for this purpose, only to learn that the

address was zoned for retail they could do their writing and

tutoring, sure, but they had to sell something in the front of the

building. So they decided to sell pirate supplies, and to

decorate the storefront as if it were a real shop for working

buccaneers. It was a ludicrous solution to a bizarre problem,

and it ended up being the key to everything.&quot- from the

introduction by Dave EggersEvery kid in the world needs a

safe, welcoming - and especially weird - place to write. That's

the theory behind 826 Valencia, a writing and tutoring center

started in 2002 by writer Dave Eggers and friends, in San

Francisco. That center inspired similar centers around the

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