Plainfield and Coit Avenues

1940s

The photo looks northwest down Coit. Buildings, etc. from left to right: Hoxies Drug Store, A & P Super Market, the alley that ran west from Coit down to the Grand Trunk railroad tracks between Caledonia and Quimby Street (the alley exited on Quimby), D. & C. Five & Dime Store, Miller's Ice Cream Store, an unidentified store on the corner (later it would be the post office or possibly it was at the time of the photo), Quimby Street, and on the northwest corner a branch of the Grand Rapids Public Library.