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Date: 1901 Type: Retail Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°55'42.25" S 18°25'29.18" E Alt: 19m

M Beinkinstadt Booksellers, established in 1903, moved here in the mid-1920s. It was the first Jewish bookstore in South Africa, and the longest-owned by a single family. It closed down in 2008, after 105 years. The building has housed Charly’s Bakery since 2009. When it was a bookshop, the main entrance was on the east side in Canterbury Street, but the bakery changed it to the north side. The building used to face Glynndale St on the north side. When Rennie inspected the site in 1978, Glynndale St had been closed, absorbed by a car park created when the whole street block on Canterbury-Caledon-Harrington Sts was demolished c1970 (Rennie 1978: 350). The pediment gable on the right carries the plaster inscription Est. 1898, and on the left Erec. 1901. The pediment gable on the east has 1989 painted on it – the year when Charly’s Bakery was established, albeit not in this building. Books that reference M Beinkinstadt Booksellers Rennie, John for CPIA. 1978. The Buildings of Central Cape Town 1978. Volume Two : Catalogue. Cape Town: Cape Provincial Institute of Architects. pg 352 item 110.20