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The southwest corner of Tennent Avenue and Pear Street today.
Greenfield’s large new building, as seen in the photo,
was called the “Big Department Store.”And big it was,
selling shoes, clothes, dresses, hardware, wine and spirits,
groceries, coal, kerosene, notions, tobacco, candies, and
much more. Employees remembered how cold it was
inside, as there was no heat in the huge store. Customers
were billed at month’s end and farmers paid bills once a
year. Deliveries were made by spring wagon and a team
of horses with an umbrella above the driver’s seat. Twice a
week, deliveries were made to the nearby town of Giant.
Abraham Greenfield’s store in early Pinole was as awesome
to Pinoleans as the new Sprouts Farmers Market is today.
Greenfield’s three stories had a staircase and landing
at each level, filled with goods. Outside, the building
was attractive, with an imposing cupola and skylight and
Italianate-style fence atop the roof.
After the Greenfields left Pinole, the building saw a
succession of owners. The top floor was removed and
apartment units constructed. Bob Dutra and former Pinole
fire chief Alex Clark bought the building in 1962 and
remodeled it. One popular restaurant still a Pinole fixture
on the ground floor is The Alley Cafe, with its famous
1964 mural of Pinole. Dutra and Clark sold the café,
reacquired it, and then sold it again.
Dave Brandt bought it in 1978 after the previous owner
died. Cori Brandt worked for her father in the restaurant
as a waitress; Dave was the cook. When Dave died in
1992, Cori (Brandt) Clark, by this time married to Alex
Clark’s son, Chano, took over. Chano and Cori owned the
building and the restaurant until selling both in 2015.
Abraham Greenfield had an eye for a great business
location in downtown Pinole. We now know what it
looked like to Pinoleans of the past.
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