Photo courtesy of VCU Libraries
Friday, January 28, 2011
Bellevue Ave - April 1978
The 1200 block of Bellevue Ave in Northside, looking towards Brook Rd, from April of 1978. While this block has changed a fair amount in 33 years, Bellevue Cleaners is still on the corner of Brook and Bellevue, and from what I can tell in this photo, looks exactly the same. I love the Drug store and Bi-Rite Market signs, and I still have a Bellevue Hardware yardstick in my house, left by a previous owner.
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The old soda machine in front of Bi-Rite is real neat.
ReplyDeleteExcept for the cars, it doesn't look much different today.
ReplyDeleteEvery birthday cake we ate as a child came from Belle Bakery
ReplyDeleteThere is still a drugstore in that spot also. It's a CVS, and was of course a Peoples Drug before that.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think it was a Willey's before that.
DeleteYep, Peoples was in Azalea Mall.
DeleteI LOVE the Northside...Richmond's 1st suburb
ReplyDeleteI knew the girl that drove that Volkswagen super beetle. she used to work at hip Pocket at Azalea Mall!
ReplyDeleteThat Bellevue Barber shop was there until maybe 7 years ago. They had a long, long run. And, based on the newish sign, Johnson's Hardware must have sold out relatively near when this pic was taken.
ReplyDeleteWiley's Drug Store was there on Bellevue!
ReplyDeleteWasn't there a Granderson barbershop there in the 60's?
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