Neighbourhood corner stores: Cardero Grocery

It’s true that I have a fascination with corner stores, particularly those that exist within an urban/residential setting. There’s something incredibly fascinating about having a quaint, little store in the middle of a really residential zone. The lower part of the West End neighbourhood has that mixture of stores and houses/apartment buildings.

Cardero Street is one of those streets that has a number of these stores, as I have written before (on the economic geography of the lower West End). I walk past Cardero Grocery almost every time I walk by the West End, just to see it.

I wrote about the corner store on 12th and Carolina (Charles Grocery) a year or so ago, and I’ll probably be taking photos of this kind of stores all over the lower mainland, simply because it fascinates me how small stores survive in predominantly residential neighbourhoods.