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**Maxine Allem Schoyer** (d. 5 August 1990). Proprietor of [[Schoyer's Books]] in Pittsburgh with her husband [[William T. Schoyer]], until the Squirrel Hill neighborhood shop was [[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57579935/schoyers-books-sold-to-decamp-and/|sold to]] [[Marc Selvaggio]] and [[decamp_donnis|Donnis DeCamp]] ca. 1 January 1986. 

In a [[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57579429/pittsburgh-post-gazette/|profile]] of Maxine Schoyer in the Pittsburgh //Post-Gazette// of 12 June 1985 prior to her retirement, she characterizes the business of selling old books as "upsy-downsy. . . . We're not Macy's and we're not Kaufmann's but we still have a nice yearly gross." She also remarks in that article that "Children today are too much into computers. They should throw the damn things away and get a back to reading."  

See her [[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57579761/obituary-for-maxine-schoyer/|obituary]] in the Pittsburgh //Post-Gazette//, 8 August 1990 (page 32) and her AP [[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57579623/maxine-schoyer-obit/|obituary]] as it appeared in the Pottsville [PA] //Republican// on 7 August 1990 (page 3).

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