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Juliemodern paintings, and--in the basement, a few (really nice) old cards (I haven't seen him in 3 years of so). He set up at one of Dennis Purdey's Bay Area shows (Vintage shows, they were called), and charged me $1000 for en ex-mintish N28 Clarkson--which I still have. Oh YEAH--he used to have almost the only Japanese cards in America--he has a Japanese wife--and there was NO price guide--BOY did he soak you for Japanese cards!
Dave's Dougout on San Pablo used to have an occasional early 2oth century card, and a few '30s cards--but now they put all that stuff on ebay. No point in stopping there any more.
There was a store on College Avenue, in Oakland, called "Top of the (9th? 7th? 6th?)". I got a '43 whatisface Joe D there--and a really gorgeous photo, signed, of Koufax (which I posted a while back, in a "greatest pitcher--was he one of? thread). It looked like his '66 card, but smiling a little. They went out of business, I think--at least they aren't there anymore.
East SF Bay California fresh out of baseball card stores!