I lived next to Cody's on Telegraph and Haste in Berkeley as a grad/law student in '92-93. Dangerous location for someone on a fixed income who loves to read. I was happy when they (much later) opened a branch in SF, but it soon closed. I never even got to visit the downtown Berkeley branch before it shut down this week.
George Carlin figured prominently in my undergrad paper on FCC Regulation of Broadcast Indecency. Censorship was the focus of my undergraduate and graduate research. Just wasn't quite sure how to make a livelihood out of that...