Adele D. Oliver


Community Manager, Lotusland, Canada

Once a Corner Grocery Store (2)

now a Starbucks (on Commercial Drive)

before supermarkets Vancouver had many, many little corner grocery stores in every neighbourhood (the entrance door being on the corner) .... some still remain, but many have been converted to other stores, cafes, art galleries and living quarters - I love them as they take away from the impersonality of the big stores.

Once a Corner Grocery Store (1)
Once a Corner Grocery Store (1)
Adele D. Oliver

Comments 22

  • phonya 13/04/2014 21:14

    I love those streets - tells a lot about life-worlds ...
    lg phonya
  • Thomas Ito 13/04/2014 9:35

    The times, they are a-changing...
    And as we're marching on through time,
    cities are losing their identities to corporations.
    Yet still we say we're living in the best
    of all possible worlds?
    Great picture - hats off!
    Thomas
  • Glenn Capers 09/04/2014 17:11

    The owner makes a profit and retires or joins Starbucks. Which ever way the corner markets are being beaten to death by the super super markets.
  • Lene Thomsen 07/04/2014 18:29

    Now is starting to look like where I am shopping :-)

    regards
    Lene
  • Gelo Charro 03/04/2014 21:04

    Me gusta la escena y el encuadre, Adele.
    Buen trabajo.
    Abrazos
    Gelo
  • Zman68 03/04/2014 19:22

    Very nice street shot. Zman68
  • alexander stefanatos 03/04/2014 16:38

    A fine shot.Excellent exposure to balance the light correctly in the interior of the shop.
    best regards alexander
  • Claudio Micheli 03/04/2014 13:17

    Realizzazione molto gradevole.
    Ciao
  • s. sabine krause 03/04/2014 9:45

    starbucks taking over the old corner store… nope, we're not in kansas anymore but on commercial drive! ; ) but at least they preserved the beautiful old mosaic of the facade, so that one can still imagine what the old has-been grocery looked like… another great capture and documentary of placid and social city-life inexorably fading away… hugs, sabine.
  • Mark Billiau. 03/04/2014 8:24

    Good exposure of the artificial illuminations !

    Mark
  • Frederick Mann 03/04/2014 7:28


    Starbucks is spreading like a virus
  • Angelika El. 03/04/2014 0:02


    Ja, starbucks sieht man auch bei uns immer mehr! Die breite, durchsichtige Türe wirkt sehr einladend - und wenn einem dann noch Kaffeeduft in die Nase steigt, dann wird sicher mancher Kaffeeliebhaber schwach! Die Fassade mit den feinen und proper wirkenden Fliesen vermittelt (für mich) Sauberkeit...

    LG! a.

  • Rainer Golembiewski 02/04/2014 22:56

    bei diesen beschiss... Coffee-Shops kriegst du alles nur keinen richtigen Kaffee...........
  • José Ramón Miguel 02/04/2014 22:28

    Preciosa imagen nocturna del comercio en el chaflán, buen control de la luz y el color y buena ambientación callejera.
    Un abrazo.
    Ramón
  • Ilse Jentzsch 02/04/2014 21:56

    Starbucks ist auch bei uns an jeder Ecke - alle Städte sehen inzwischen durch diese Ketten fast gleich aus :-(
    Herzlich grüßt
    Ilse

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