Grocery Store, Malt & Hops Company -- 1913

            James Butler Grocery Store,
Westchester Malt & Hops Company,
Chinese Hand Laundry,
Fink Avenue, between East Tremont and  Blondel Avenues,
Westchester Square, Bronx

Photo taken by Percy Loomis Sperr
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James Butler (1855 – 1934) was an American businessman from New York. As a hotel steward in the early 1880s, Butler invested his $2,000 life savings with the son of his landlady to open a grocery store on Second Avenue in New York. The business grew to a chain of stores By 1914, Butler owned 43 stores (all featuring green and gold exteriors) At the time of his death, Butler's grocery store chain was the sixth largest in the U.S. by total sales, with more than 1,100 stores
-- Wikipedia
   

Taken in: United States / New York / Westchester Square (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1913

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