Today, we present another Lindley Park photo, taken from the corner of Elam and Walker Avenues. Above, the gray building is now Fishbones. It used to house the Blind Tiger. To the left, the turquoise building is the Bestway Grocery Store. This building has been a Lindley Park grocery store since 1947- almost seven decades of serving up bread, milk and other staples. It is the longest continuously running grocery store in Greensboro. Bestway began as an A&P Grocery Store in 1947 and later became a Bi-Rite. In 1972, it became part of the Bestway chain. At one time there were 14 stores in the Virginia and North Carolina area. As of 1987, the Walker Avenue location is the only Bestway left, and it is thriving. Since 2008, it has been owned by Roger and Nancy Kimbrough. Thanks to them, the store is keeps getting better and better and more and more of a local vibe.
We're betting Bestway will be hopping this weekend, after the Yarn Bombing of the Walker Avenue Bridge today in this neighborhood that has been thriving since 1917.* Have a great weekend, everyone.
*Read a history of the Lindley Park neighborhood, here. See a 2011 photo that we took of the interior, here.
What! No mention of their famous wall of beer? I have heard they have more NC craft beers than anywhere in the state.
Posted by: Jane T. Mitchell | Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 08:56 AM
A chain we don't see up here. We used to have a Canadian A&P, but the ownership of the chain changed the name.
Posted by: William Kendall | Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 02:04 PM