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Old grocery store on Broad Street between Yates and Johnson


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#1 Mike K.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 12:05 PM

Does anyone remember the little grocery store on Broad Street between Yates and Johnson? I used to rummage through their isles when I was a kid. I think the place closed down in the mid 1990's.

I recall that it was a family run operation with three generations all taking on various duties. It was located in the London Flats building.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 12:29 PM

"G" Family grocery. Father, son, mother. None moved too fast. Dad was the quickest, and was a nice enough guy. Somehow they struck me as being Jewish, but I'm not sure why (since religion doesn't express itself in physical traits, and it's not like they wore yarmulkes).
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#3 Mike K.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 01:28 PM

That's it! For whatever reason this place floated back into memory last night and I wondered for a while whether I was mixing up locales or whether the place had actually existed.

I spent a lot of my mum's money at that place as a kid. It was always a toss-up between heading into Chinatown or to G Family :)

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#4 HB

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Posted 13 September 2015 - 08:54 AM

They were Croatian



#5 Jill

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Posted 13 September 2015 - 10:03 AM

Another one of those places I used to go and then totally forgot about once it was gone.



#6 Mixed365

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Posted 01 February 2016 - 11:17 PM

Any photographs of this?


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