Santos Sy Store

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Santos Sy Store is your oldest archetypal Chinese mom and pop store, and dealer of Petron Gasul, in Santos Sy Store first set up shop in 1951, along present-day Sikatuna Street, and in 1956, moved nearby to a decrepit quonset hut along Rizal Street, the then-singular thoroughfare of the frontier and post-war town of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. It then offered -- as it does to this day -- a myriad of merchandise, from groceries and household effects, to choice imported items, textiles, ready-to-wear clothes, school supplies, and other dry goods. Read moreContrary to popular belief, the store's name is not an amalgamation of the family names, "Santos" and "Sy", but was actually the passport name given to Mr. Sy Ling Yong, an intrepid and industrious, true to form native of the Chinese Province of Fujian, who was among the first to migrate and settle in town. And, also contrary to common knowledge, the officially registered name of the store used to be "Esperanza Sy Store", after Santos Sy's beloved Filipina wife of Chinese descent, who was endearingly called "Mama" by family, and "Mama Enciang" by extended relatives, friends, and strangers alike. In 1959, Santos Sy Store transferred to its present location along what is now Bonifacio Street near corner Liboro Street, and in November of 1983, it expanded and became an exclusive dealer of Petron Gasul, officially operating under the trade name, Premiere Gas & Appliances, servicing the LPG needs of the entire southern half of the island of Occidental Mindoro. In August of 1987, the basic structure of the modest, pink-plastered three-story building that can be seen today was completed and rendered serviceable, primarily through the painstaking hopes-turned-efforts of siblings Mrs. Carmelita Sy-Amer and Engr. Danilo Coden Sy, the second and youngest children, respectively, of the now-deceased spouses Santos and Esperanza Sy. In the meantime, the eldest of the second-generations, Mrs. Virginia Sy-Grapilon, left to establish the lamentably defunct Numero Uno Store, along Rizal Street, incidentally, nearly in front of the old Santos Sy Store site. The third in the brood of four, on the other hand, Dr. Eleanor Sy-Costibolo, an astute pediatrician, started -- and to this day maintains -- a small but welcoming "Children's Clinic", and once, a rambunctious burger stand, right beside the store. Thankfully, Santos Sy Store has remained largely impervious to the ebb and flow of merchants' fortunes, notwithstanding its resistance to change and progress, and its dogged insist Update description

Address:

2254 Bonifacio St., Brgy. 2 (Pob.)
San Jose

Telephone:

+63 43 491 1031

Opening hours:

Monday: 09:00-18:00

Tuesday: 09:00-18:00

Wednesday: 09:00-18:00

Thursday: 09:00-18:00

Friday: 09:00-18:00

Saturday: 09:00-18:00

Sunday: 09:00-17:00

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Santos Sy S. 2016-01-01
goes to Bato-ilo Minority School, Monteclaro, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro

Santos Sy S. 2015-12-26
our tradition.. the bottoms-up challenge.. then, they will receive P200/bottle..ayt...

Santos Sy S. 2015-11-01
Remembering Lola, Papa, and Mama. A blessed All Saints' and Souls' Day to all!

Santos Sy S. 2015-04-06
Santos Sy Store in a boodle fight after walking at least 21 kms. from San Jose to Sudlon, Rizal, Occidental Mindoro for its annual Good Friday penitence walk.

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5.7 / 10

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Most activity in January:

Santos Sy Store has a total of 365 visitors (checkins) and 2211 likes.

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