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. Demolished. Now the site of a five-story hotel called 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 the “Paul Elder Building,” it still stands at the corner of Grant and Tillman Place.
• 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 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 .