Ed and Erv's Centrella Food Mart at 2210 West Touhy Avenue. Chicago Illinois. July 2007.

Ed and Erv's Centrella Food Mart at 2210 West Touhy Avenue. Chicago Illinois. July 2007.
Originally uploaded by Eddie from Chicago

I took this photo back in the year of 2007.

Chicago wasn't always the fabled land of giant corporate supermarket grocery stores like Jewel / Osco, Dominicks Finer Foods and Superwalmart. For many years, there was an abundance of these quaint and old fashioned family owned Mom and Pop neighborhood grocery stores.

With a tiled front and hand painted letters, Ed and Erv's Centrella Food Mart at 2210 West Touhy Avenue on Chicago's far northside, is a surviving example from those much simpler times of the past.

It is a tiny two aisled grocery store with a butcher shop inside, right out of the 1930's and 40's era. A pleasant image of Chicago neighborhood scenes past.