Editing Hooper's Store (section)

{{Short description|Fictional business on Sesame Street}}
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'''Hooper's Store''' is a fictional business and meeting-place on the television show ''[[Sesame Street]]''. When the show began, the store was one of the four main locations on the set representing the fictional [[Sesame Street (fictional location)|Sesame Street]], with the 123 Sesame Street brownstone, the Fix-It Shop, and the carriage house.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gikow |first1=Louise A. |title=Sesame Street: A Celebration of 40 Years of Life on the Street |date=2009 |publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal |isbn=978-1579126384 |page=67}}</ref> In the show, the original owner was [[Mr. Hooper]], a gruff but friendly grocer. 

After the death in 1982 of [[Will Lee]], the actor who played Mr. Hooper, the store was managed by other characters, including [[Northern Calloway|David]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gikow |first1=Louise A. |title=Sesame Street: A Celebration of 40 Years of Life on the Street |date=2009 |publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal |isbn=978-1579126384 |page=78}}</ref> [[Mr. Handford]], and Alan.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gikow |first1=Louise A. |title=Sesame Street: A Celebration of 40 Years of Life on the Street |date=2009 |publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal |isbn=978-1579126384 |page=81}}</ref>