Reports and proposals · June 17, 1987
Book-sale promotion proposal and layout
Proposes rear parking-lot layout and food sales with projected profits; not evidence food sales occurred.
Text
Transcribed from the scans and checked against them by Claude. Typed text comes first; handwritten notes follow it. [illegible] marks words that cannot be read and [?] an uncertain reading.
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FRIENDS OF THE HERMOSA BEACH LIBRARY
PROMOTIONAL IDEAS
Book Sales Using The Back Parking Lot
Hang the banner sign as usual; perhaps I can get us another banner with an arrow and "BOOK SALE" either free or at a good rate from the commercial firm that supplies our industrial real estate firm.
Set up the book, music and food tables behind the flagged, roped off area.
Food
If we buy hot dogs in 5 lb boxes at Smart & Final Iris, we'd make approximately 18¢/20¢ profit per hot dog including the cost of paper napkins (at @ 1¢ or less each) to wrap each hot dog. I'll throw in a giant jar of mustard and pickle relish as a donation.
Further, we could sell the little packages of chips for 25¢ each (buying them at Smart & Final Iris for 10¢ each) and make an additional 15¢ per.
100 hot dogs at 20¢ each = $20.00
50 chips at 15¢ each = $ 7.50
$27.50 x at least 3 (300 people) = $82.50
Coffee
Two 5 lbs cans @ $7.00 each = $14.00
10¢ a cup, including the styrofoam cup = $25.00
Danish
I spoke with the manager of Alpha Beta to see if we could buy Danish at cost and put up a sign "Alpha Beta Bake Shop" but he said "No, when A-B lowered their prices, they cut out doing promotionals." However, he is good for about as many plastic shopping bags as we could want.
Therefore, how about buying from Winchells and charging double?
$82.50 | Hot dogs and chips
$25.00 | Coffee
$50.00 | Danish
$156.50 | Profit
You would have to sell 626 paperback books to get the same amount of money.
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LIBRARY
Friends of..booth
hot dogs
coffee
Danish
cashiers/special books
pocketbooks
pocketbooks
music
hard covers
roped off with flags
BACK PARKING LOT
Handwritten notes
• (top right, signature) Rena Murphy [?]
• (top right) 6-17-87
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FRIENDS OF THE HERMOSA BEACH LIBRARY PROMOTIONAL IDEAS 6-17-87 Book Sales Using The Back Parking Lot Hang the banner sign as usual; perhaps | can get us another banner with an arrow and "BOOK SALE" either free or at a good rate from the commercial firm that supplies our industrial real estate firm. Set up the book, music and food tables behind the flagged, roped off Food If we buy hot dogs in 5lb boxes at Smart & Final Iris, we'd make approximately 184/204 profit per hot dog including the cost of paper napkins (at @ 14 or less each) to wrap each hot dog. I'll throw in a giant jar of mustard and pickle relish as a donation. Further, we could sell the little packages of chips for 25¢ each (buying them at Smart & Final Iris for 10¢ each) and make an additional 15¢ per? 100 hot dogs at 20¢ each = $20.00 50 chips at 15¢ each = $ 7.50 $27.50 x at least 3(300 people) = $82.50 Coffee Two 5 Ibs cans @ $7.00 each = $14.00 10¢ a cup, including the styrofoam cup = $25.00 Danish I spoke with the manager of Alpha Beta to see if we could buy Danish at cost and put up a sign "Alpha Beta Bake Shop" but he said "No, when A-B lowered their prices, they cut out doing promotionals." However, he is good for about as many plastic shopping bags as we could want. Therefore, how about buying from Winchells and charging double? $82.50 Hot dogs and chips $25.00 Coffee $50.00 Danish $156.50 Profit You would have to sell 626 paperback books to get the same amount of money.
Source scan page 54
0 hot dogs coffee Danish LIBRARY Friends of. ..booth cashiers/special books pocketbooks music roped off with flags BACK PARKING LOT