Do any of Elder’s bookstores still exist?

No. However, four buildings that once housed Elder’s stores still exist. Here are the details:

• Mills Building, northeast corner of Bush & Montgomery, San Francisco. Elder’s shop was a room on the mezzanine. The building was burned out in the 1906 earthquake and fire, but the shell was saved and the interior rebuilt. The Mills Building still stands today.
• 238 Post, San Francisco. Destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. The structure built in its place, numbered 250 Post, became the longtime home of Gump’s, the famous luxury furnishings store. When Gump’s moved to 135 Post in 1995, a Zara store took its place. In 2019, Gump’s returned to 250 Post, occupying just the right side of the building; Zara remains in the center and left sections.
• 22 Chapala, Santa Barbara. Demolished.
• 1203 State at Anapamu, Santa Barbara. Uncertain, but probably not any of the existing buildings at this location.
• Bush & Van Ness, San Francisco. Elder vacated in April 1909. In May 1910, the building was converted into the clubrooms of the Professional Chauffeurs’ Association of San Francisco; new furnishings included a piano, pool tables, a circulating library and a stock of cigars and soft drinks.  In January 1912, it was the showroom for R. B. Daggett & Co., distributors of the Baker Electric automobile. But by January 1914, the beautiful Maybeck building, just eight years old, had been demolished, and the current five-story brick hotel, designed by Nathaniel Blaisdell, was under construction. As of May 2025, the current tenant is the Calista Organic Hotel.
• 43-45 East 19th St, 4th floor, New York City. The building has been converted to residential apartments, with a restaurant on the street level.
• 239 Grant, San Francisco. Built in 1909 as an identical twin to the building at 231 Grant, a sixth story was added in the 1950s, and the original distinctive cladding was removed. The building still stands at the corner of Grant and Tillman Place; the street level sales areas have been remodeled many times.
• Booth at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Demolished when the Fair closed in November 1915.
• 239 Post, San Francisco. Now numbered 237 Post, the building is currently a Graff Diamonds store.
• Sutter & Stockon, San Francisco. Demolished circa 1969. Now the site of the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
• Mills Building. Paul Jr. opened a small satellite shop at 228 Montgomery Street in order to serve the downtown business community. This retail space still exists today, to the left of the main entrance.