Salvator Kounio's photography store was founded in 1917. Being the Kodak product dealership (cameras, film, chemicals for film development and photographic paper) and systematically serving amateur photographers, it became the most important store of its kind in Thessaloniki. Many photographs from the pre-war period have been printed in the Kounio photography store. The first store was located at the corner of Komninon and Tsimiski Streets and from 1919 it was housed at 15, Venizelou Street, almost on the corner with Vassileos Irakleiou Str., where it remained for 92 years. Next to it was the Vital Cohen clothing store. In the 1930s, Salvator Kounio collaborated with the Macedonia newspaper and offered coupons to buy Kodak cameras, thus providing 25,000 cameras for the market. Salvator Kounio's family lived in a seaside house in the Allatini area. The descendants of Salvator Kounio still operate the store located on Komninon Street.