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Highway 9, Boulder Creek
A metaphysical shop at 13150 Highway 9 stocking crystals, minerals, incense and more than 200 tarot and oracle decks, alongside soaps, candles and oils handcrafted with essential oils. It carries work from over 50 local artists and offers tarot readings and energy healing by appointment.
Best for Crystals, tarot and handmade spiritual goods
Boulder
Blackbelly combines a whole-animal butcher counter with a restaurant and prepared-food operation. Shoppers can buy cuts and charcuterie to cook at home, while the kitchen demonstrates how the meat is used.
Best for Locally sourced meats and seasonal dishes from chef Hosea Rosenberg's butcher shop
Pearl Street, Boulder
David Bolduc founded the Boulder Bookstore in 1973 with ten bookcases and five staff at 1133 Pearl Street. Since 1991 it has occupied the Cheney Block of 1899 at 1107 Pearl, on the corner of 11th Street on the pedestrian mall. More than 100,000 titles fill three floors. The upstairs ballroom, once a dance hall, hosts more than 150 author events a year.
Best for New and used books across several floors, author readings
Boulder Bookstore opened in 1973 at 1133 Pearl Street. Founder David Bolduc started with ten bookcases and five employees in the front of a building shared with a Mexican import store and a basement plant shop. In 1991 the store moved along Pearl to the Cheney Block, built in 1899. The building was renamed the Buckingham Block in 1905, as the stone at the top still reads. Bolduc hired a feng shui consultant to place the entrance and the office during the remodel. He fitted a tin ceiling on the main floor to match the building's period while saving energy. The Upper North Room, acquired in 1994, is known as the Annex. The store now employs about fifty people across 20,000 square feet and three floors. It stocks more than 100,000 titles, with a used-book department and an out-of-print service. It reports its bestsellers to the New York Times and the Denver Post. The ballroom upstairs was used from 1899 for lodge meetings and dances, with the orchestra in the mezzanine where the offices now sit. Later a Buddhist congregation met there. It now hosts more than 150 author events a year. The stained glass in its north windows was made to match the original west pair. Bolduc once organised readings for Allen Ginsberg when the poet lived in Boulder. He was a founding member of the Boulder Independent Business Alliance. The corner of Pearl and 11th was once called Pearl and Fight for the bars that stood there.
Pearl Street, Boulder
Into The Wind has sold kites from its Pearl Street shop since 1980, from simple diamonds to stunt and box kites, along with windsocks, banners and flying toys. The independent store designs some of its own kites and ships them worldwide.
Best for Kites and flying toys
Pearl Street, Boulder
Founded in 1977, Peppercorn is a Pearl Street emporium of cookware, kitchen tools, tableware and gourmet foods packed floor to ceiling. The independent store carries knives, bakeware, linens and thousands of specialty ingredients.
Best for Cookware and gourmet foods
Highway 9, Boulder Creek
An independent brick-and-mortar gift boutique on Highway 9 in Boulder Creek, in the San Lorenzo Valley. Trading as Present: Adventure Gift Store, it is a small locally owned shop selling gifts and giftware.
Best for Gifts and giftware
Pearl Street, Boulder
Starfish is a Boulder jewellery shop offering artisan and handmade pieces, mixing its own designs with work from independent makers. It sells fashion and fine jewellery from its Pearl Street store and online.
Best for Artisan and handmade jewellery
13026 Highway 9, Boulder Creek
A vintage shop at 13026 Highway 9 dealing in restored mid-century-modern stereo equipment and vinyl records. It also stocks vintage clothing and locally made apparel.
Best for Restored stereos, vinyl and vintage apparel
Pearl Street, Boulder
Two Hands Paperie is a Pearl Street shop for fine paper, cards, journals, pens and bookbinding and art supplies, including imported and handmade sheets. It runs workshops in calligraphy, bookbinding and other paper crafts.
Best for Fine paper and art supplies
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