The Martha s Vineyard Times
This Was Then: Street Store
One of Edgartown’s seven groceries at the dawn of the 20th century.
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Manuel Silva (presumably the mustachioed man in the bowtie on the far left) in his Street Store on South Summer Street. His neighbor, Edgartown undertaker and meat dealer Joe Currier, is seated on the right. Courtesy Chris Baer
Manuel Silva’s Summer Street Grocery was located in several locations on South Summer Street between 1892 to 1922. Pictured here was the last site, today occupied by the Charlotte Inn. Courtesy Chris Baer
Advertisement for Manuel Silva’s grocery store in the 1897 directory of Edgartown. Courtesy Chris Baer