Lloyd and May Lee bought Joe’s Food Center and owned it from the 1950s to the 1990s. Joe’s Food Center became a special place for the community, and the pair knew everyone in the neighborhood by name. They provided items you couldn’t get anywhere else: lard (rendered from pork scraps), crunchy rendered pork bits, and Chinese sweets. No one was ever turned away, and they gave people store credit when they didn’t have money to pay upfront. They sold the business in the 1990s, and it is now the Madrona Market and Deli.