Neighborhood Grocery Stores #2

Small Family Grocery Stores – Through the years and before the large chain grocery stores came into being, Minot as had many small, local, family owned neighborhood grocery stores. In 1967 there were 8 neighborhood grocery stores in the city. Some of these are from the 1960’s and others from years gone by:

Helm’s Grocery  -- 603 8^th Ave NE – owned by Dale Helm and his brother Howard – east of  Trinity Nursing Home.

Sunshine Grocery – 836 9^th Ave NW – operated by Arthur Johnson and his wife – west of Little Flower Church

Warren’s Grocery – 322 7^th Ave NW – owned by Barbara T. Dignan..

Handy Grocery – Ross Peterson owner – was located where the Minot Daily News is now.. the building was moved to Northwest Minot and was converted to apartments

Beckland Grocery – 920 4^th Ave Se (East Burdick Exp.) …. Owned by Carl Beckland … building was demolished for the Parkway Motel … which in turn was demolished for expansion of Coca Cola Bottling

Oak Park Grocery – 422  2^nd Ave NW …. Owned by Christian Schmelling … I believe this was converted to a residence

 Helms Grocery

 Oak Park Grocery - 1923 Flood

 Oak Park Grocery - 1923 Flood

Sunshine Grocery