Historic Bridgeland grocery renewed

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Historic Bridgeland grocery renewed

Postby newsposter » Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:11 am

Updated Bridgeland store greets new generation of customers

By John Gilchrist, For the Calgary Herald
February 14, 2012 (in February 5 print edition)

It’s been a full century since North East Grocery opened at 1104 1st Ave. N.E. in Bridgeland. The area was known as Riverside back then and the store served the working class community of immigrant Germans and Italians and a new group of employees at the just-built Calgary General Hospital. Constructed on the eastern edge of the city, the little grocery store was soon surrounded by new houses and did a bustling business...

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Postby 00fxd » Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:51 pm

Any one got an exteriour pic of the old place?
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