Coury Grocery Store
Every neighborhood once had one, a “Ma-and-Pa” grocery store, and there was one in my neighborhood.
The Coury Grocery was located on 27th and Chapline streets. and, as you will see by the photographs, how perfect it was. They
had all the right stuff for kids, including penny candy, ice cream, and soda pop.
This is what growing up in Center Wheeling was all about, and I find it to be a shame this type of life now is gone forever. Mrs. Coury was never without an apron, and “Pop” was just the nicest man.
Please enjoy these photos.
It has been a passion of mine to showcase and preserve Wheeling’s rich history with this series of historic photographs that highlight a business or building that is no longer here in the Upper Ohio Valley.
If you have suggestions on a favorite business or location that has vanished, please submit that to me at cre8m@comcast.net. I will do my best to search it out and tell that story.
I hope with this series, “Gone Forever,” I will be able to show what made Wheeling the greatest city in West Virginia, and the large amount of business and industry that was here in the early ’30s and ’40s that attracted people from everywhere.
James Thornton has published several volumes of history on the city of Wheeling, and those interested in purchasing one of them can do so by contacting him at cre8m@comcast.net or visit the Creative Impressions website. The books can be purchased at the Wheeling Heritage Center, Kroger on Mount de Chantal Road, Miklas Meat Market, Nail City Records, the UPS Store in the Washington Avenue Plaza, VC Wares at Centre Market, Bower’s Decorating at The Highlands, and on the website www.wheelinghistory.net.
