Westside Grocery

Looks like a film set!

Does it? "Shootout at the Westside Grocery" - lol! Thank you, Diana.

This a greatly composed picture ! And I agree with Diana: like a scene from a road movie !

Well, Ulrich, I live in a scene from a road movie. It can't be helped - haha!

So the shop should have been called Northside groceries, right?

Uhh, no. "Westside" is, I think, the reference is to being west of the nearby town of Tulelake, Calif. But, I've been wrong before and if so, I'll notify the authorities responsible for the proper naming of commercial enterprises. I swear, this country is falling apart! Thanks, Andy!

I love this quintessentially American scene, Diane. Nice angle from which you have shot the grocery. Cheers, Joe

Thanks very much, Joe!

I want to know what the missing commodity is (between liquor and beer)..!!

Probably used to say DELI. Or, DONUTS. I'd prefer DONUTS.

Me too!

Was my first thought, too!

So much of North America was settled in the 19th century that the buildings were often built from the same stylebooks. The main difference between buildings of that era here and those in Europe is that the craftsmanship tends, I think, to be better in Europe. The buildings with fine craftsmanship here were usually worked on by European craftsmen, I think. There's a neighbourhood in Toronto built by Scottish masons who came over to work on the provincial legislature and Old City Hall. Anyway, houses and stores in North America were often built by the people who were going to live in them or operate the business in them.

So right. Also, the further west you go, at least in the US, the more temporary the old rural and small-town buildings look, probably because people had (and still have!) the "just passing through" psychology.

I'd like to see that Toronto neighborhood on Street View, John.

Upon reading your info .... I ask why did you move there ? ....Interesting to see what it's like in other country's !!!

Grew up here, moved to California with my family in 1962. I will always consider myself a Californian. Mom and Dad moved back here to retire, because it's WAY cheaper. Eventually, I could tell they weren't doing well on their own. I agonized over moving back here, because it was always the last place I'd ever want to live! But, I knew I had to. Dad died a year after I arrived, now Mom is 93 and in assisted living close by. She has Alzheimer's. I'm glad I got to spend Dad's last year with him.

I never have adjusted to living here (really, I kind of refuse to adjust to it!), but it's made bearable by my son and grandchildren, who also live here. We're all still here because now we can't afford where we came from! Culturally, it's massively unlike the San Francisco area and I don't even socialize here. Ten years later, I'm still homesick. Fortunately, I have two good neighbors, also single, older women and also from California, so we commiserate, sometimes. Other than that, an old friend in California and Ipernity friends are my long-distance social life.

Well, that's it! ;-b

I guess I live in a movie set too, because it looks perfectly normal to me! ;)

Yes, I'm certain you do! Ha! ;-)