![]() Breuner's closed the Oakland store in the 1970's and later sold the building. John Berendt ( 1939) Biographical Sketch John Berendt (born Syracuse, NY, USA, December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. ![]() One of the wonderful Oakland traditions each year were the beautiful animatronic displays in the Breuner's storefront windows during the Christmas holiday season. In 1931 the company moved into the Breuner Building located at 2201 Broadway in Oakland. The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after more than a decade to give us an intimate look at the magic, mystery, and decadence of. In 1917, the company moved to a new building constructed by the Charles Jurgens Company at 1515 Clay Street (since demolished now the site of the Elihu M. In 1906, in order to supply furniture to people who lost their homes in the San Francisco earthquake, the company opened a store in a building at 13th and Franklin that later become famous as the Tribune Building. ![]() ![]() The John Breuner Furniture Company was established in 1856 in Sacramento. Interior of the John Breuner Furniture Company 1 After Midight in the Garden of Good & Evil, Berendt waited a decade to publish his follow up novel, The City of Fallen Angels, which was released in 2005 by. ![]()
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