Sunnyside like other early residential areas had plenty of shops from the beginning, including many located on corners on blocks of houses. In the midcentury era, the western end of Monterey Boulevard was a lively shopping strip, with grocery stores, butchers, coffee shops, five-and-dimes, and lots of barbershops and salons. The rise of the supermarket and the shopping mall put a dent in the life of the boulevard toward the end of the twentieth century, but today it is doing fairly well.
Some posts on various shops and businesses in Sunnyside history:
- Bruno’s Creamery: Sunnyside’s Legendary Midcentury Corner Soda Fountain
- Monterey Boulevard shops: Some midcentury photos
- Density on the Boulevard: The Apartment Buildings of Monterey
- The Delicatessen at Monterey and Edna
- O’Donoghue’s, an Irish pub on Monterey
- Schultz’s Saloon
- The Sunnyside Coalyard
- Frenchie’s
- Wilson’s Dairy, on the edge of Sutro’s Forest
- Dairies nearby (in passing)
- The first restaurant: 211 Sunnyside Ave (219 Monterey)
- The first Monterey Delicatessen (647 Monterey) (in passing)