Welcome to the New Gleim the Jeweler!
  
We have had a busy summer of reinventing our presence in downtown Palo Alto.  We made the painful decision to downsize our store in our longtime location at 322 University Avenue and move two blocks east to 540 University.  At our new location you will see all the services you are used to: jewelry and watch repair, jewelry appraisals, estate jewelry buying and consignment, and private and corporate sales.  The only thing you will not see is showcases full of jewelry.  Our University Avenue and Stanford Shopping Center stores are less than a half mile apart.  We finally decided that it was not making sense to have two fully-stocked stores only five minutes apart from each other.  Our very first location, in 1931, was a small stall near the Stanford Theater, at which we had some merchandise for sale and did watch and jewelry repairs.  So in a sense, we have returned to our roots.  540 University Avenue is our fifth location on the Avenue in nearly 80 years.  After our initial start, we moved across the Avenue to share quarters with a music store in the 200 block of University. We then moved to the middle of the 300 block.  When Woolworth's came to town and took our space, we moved to 322 University, our home for the past 60 years.  And now we have moved again.  We are still setting up our window displays and some final moving-in details, but we are up and functioning for your everyday jewelry servicing needs.  Rick Velayo is now focusing on developing our presence on a variety of Internet sites as an enhancement to our traditional retailing.  And Marie Bayer has her watch bench at the new location, so we can continue to replace your watch batteries and repair your watches as always.  I have relocated my office to our Stanford Shopping Center location. As both my grandfather and father realized, retailing is an ever-changing landscape and we must be able to adapt to the times.  Stop by and say hello at 540 University!

 

Thank you to the many friends who came to our Store Closing Sale at 322 University Ave.  It was rewarding to hear from so many people that our presence in Palo Alto has mattered to them, and how glad they were to hear we are retaining that downtown presence in our new location.  It was fun to see how many friends found wonderful bargains during the sale and to see so much of our jewelry find good new homes.