Gene's Market in Alameda, at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Walnut Street

On the sfba.social mastodon instance, David Gallagher asks:

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#bikeride through Alameda yesterday. I love this little closed up time capsule store. I’ve seen it before over the years, amazed it hasn’t changed. Anyone know about it?

This made me curious. I found the building on google maps, at 2169 Pacific Avenue, Alameda, CA:

Using a variety of newspaper.com searches for "2169 Pacific" and "Gene's Market," I was able to piece together a history.

Looks like it was once known as Gene's Market, (see photos above), Gene's Grocery and Pacific Market.

From a search on archive.org, it looks like a 'one-story, one-room frame and rustic store' was built in 1939, at 2169 Pacific Avenue, for G. Pagones. (source) It appears George Pagones & Co. were in the real estate business.

In a 1947 newspaper article, Lester Baer was a groceryman at 2169 Pacific Ave. I know geese like to fly over, and land on Alameda. My kids' soccer games were often on goose-poop covered soccer fields, on the island. I hope it was a nice Christmas for the Baer family.

Alameda Grocery 29 Nov 1937, Mon Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) Newspapers.com