Showing posts with label Ellis Food Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ellis Food Market. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2019

Ellis Food Market

Oct. 23, 2019

If you had been standing at this location in the 1960s to 1970s, the view would have been much different.

To begin, where Gordon's Grocery is today was once, ca. 1960, the Ellis Food Market or a name that was close. For some reason the store downsized and in the early 1960s they moved across the street to the present location of Cheema's. Their building, which perhaps had previously been an auto mechanic garage, was a nondescript mostly windowless block of concrete, maybe cinderblock, with a half-quonset hut roof. The store occupied the NW part of the lot while the rest was a parking lot. The entrance was in the SE corner of the building, facing the Post Office.

The present building originally opened as Mike's in the first half of the 1980s.