History of four buildings in Lakeside.

In 2021, Lakeside’s Maine Avenue Revitalization Association installed information plaques on prominent buildings. The plaques explain the history of each building from their construction to the present day.

During my recent walk down Main Avenue in Lakeside, I photographed four such buildings.

Please enjoy the following windows into the past of a rural town in San Diego’s Eastern District…

PARK MARKET/PEYTON’S HARDWARE SHOP

In 1923, Ferguson’s Park Store was located on the site. It had a soda machine, picnic supplies and a few groceries… …The Depression forced the shop to close in 1931… In 1997 the building burned to the ground. reopened in 1999.

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PHARMACY LEO

Built in 1923 by the Lakeside Development Company. This building housed Otto Marack’s grocery store… …in 1960 it became Leo’s pharmacy…

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BARKER AND SONS

…in 1929… Heller began building this large, one-story, stucco-trimmed, Spanish-style commercial building and the house behind it (now the Chamber of Commerce) for the shop family… …it became one of the first Safeway stores in the area…

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9825 MAIN AVENUE

Formally known as the Tumbleweed Cafe in the 1950s and later as a bar… As a bar, Tumbleweed hosted a rattlesnake roundup… Later it was a Payton lawnmower store.

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