Corner Store #21: Old G and T Grocery and Confectionery @ 678 Union St. More of the triangulated vestibule treatment is seen here to complement pedestrian flow from all points. An elegant building that is now home to a salon in the ground floor.
Sunday, 11 February 2018
Saturday, 10 February 2018
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Corner Store #20: Kong's Corner Store and Handy Meats @ Campbell Avenue/ East Georgia St. This image was taken in 1972. Kong has long since moved on. (CVA)
In Strathcona there are numerous other structures built around similar corner conditions.
Nested doorway with triangular vestibule at the corner of East Georgia and Heatley Sts. Built in 1901 the store was known for most of the century as BC Grocery Co.
Walk east for one block and face the south-east corner. This corner house was built in 1905 but the storefront addition was constructed in 1923 and named the Georgia Confectionery. The Freybe Brothers Sausage Company operated out of a long factory building located to the rear. For further Strathcona Corner Store history an excellent resource is linked here. In repose from the grocery derive.
Friday, 9 February 2018
Thursday, 8 February 2018
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
Corner Store #17: Penny's Grocery @ 2934 Kingsway Ave. This little shop could not survive in the wake of a Chevron Gas station and convenience bar opening up next door.
The white tarp half-shrouds the bigger story which is that big market chains such as those owned by the 0.1 percenters, and the big crawdaddy Amazon are eroding small business ecology into obscurity. Cruel irony abounds in this Jimmy Pattison ("Bigger and Better") triptych:
Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Monday, 5 February 2018
Corner Store #15: Olympic Grocery @ SE corner of 16th Ave and Heather St. The truth and beauty gallery has suffered multiple injuries over the years according to local sources. (link)
Of note, the Foley Building was built in 1909 making it one of the earliest supporters of corner shopping in the city. (image c/o vancouver sun)
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