Robert "Bob" I. Slate first opened a stationary store in Allston, MA, in 1930, and subsequently moved the business to Cambridge in 1933. This photo is of the Bob Slate Stationer shop at 1288 Mass Ave in Harvard Square, in the mid-1950s. Credits at https://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/35558
Bob died in 1993, age 87. His kids, Mallory and Justin, ran the business until 2011, when they announced that they planned to shutter their three stores, after a failed search for a buyer for a couple of years. On hearing the stores would close, a longtime customer (Laura Donehue) offered to buy it. She moved the business a couple of blocks away, to 30 Brattle Sq (around the corner from Million Year Picnic), where it still lives, having since survived the pandemic and a building flood.
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