Answer #16 / Fifth Annual Sunnyside History Holiday Quiz

These Streamline Moderne-style stripes can be seen on the Edna Street side of 499 Monterey Blvd — once Monterey Deli, serving a popular sandwich called Aubrey, lots of Budweiser beer, and Ritter chocolate bars that appeared to have been imported in a suitcase, it is now home to an upscale liquor store.

Read more about the long and illustrious history of the delicatessen here.

499 Monterey Blvd. Photo: Amy O'Hair
499 Monterey Blvd. Photo: Amy O’Hair
1970s. 499 Monterey Blvd. This spot has been a delicatessen continuously since 1943, going under many names. Here Antoine's Delicatessen, operating mid1960s to 2000. Read the story of many immigrants who have owned this business. San Francisco Office of Assessor-Recorder Photographs Collection, San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library sfpl.org/sfphotos/asr
1970s. 499 Monterey Blvd. This spot has been a delicatessen continuously since 1943, going under many names. Here Antoine’s Delicatessen, operating mid1960s to 2000. Read the story of many immigrants who have owned this business.
San Francisco Office of Assessor-Recorder Photographs Collection, San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library sfpl.org/sfphotos/asr https://sunnysidehistory.org/2019/02/01/the-delicatessen-at-monterey-and-edna/