Laine's Grocery Store

Pictures of the historic former Laine's Grocery Store in Alviso, Ca.

This building housed the Tilden General Store from 1865 to 1912, the family business of Susan Ortley Tilden and her daughter Minerva. From 1912 until 1939 it housed a number of different enterprises. There was a saloon, a dance hall, and according to local legend, the site of a secret Chinese lottery.

Also formerly Laines Grocery Store it is situated next to the historic Tilden-Laine house in Alviso. It was Laine's Grocery from 1940 to 1960. Owned and operated by Willis Laine, former mayor of Alviso who lived in the victorian next door. Miraculously, the building has survived the ravages of time and flooding.

The shop was abandoned after floods in the early 1980s. Water marks were to the top of the doorframe.

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items are from between 27 Sep 2007 & 08 May 2008.