[AT] OT NuGrape, Beeman's Pepsin Gum etc (Country Store)

Mattias Kessén davidbrown950 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 10:57:43 PDT 2007


OK, so that's it. My tractor have never seen any restoration even at far
distance and I don't drink grapesoda (at least not as it comes from the
bottle) Does this mean that I have to sign off or will I be excluded.
Hey I thought winter had ended even in northern Northamerica ;-)

Mattias


2007/6/1, Bruce Fallon <bfallon at whidbey.com>:
>
> When I was a kid Vernors Ginger Ale was aged " Four " years in Oak Barrels
> then it became " for " years, then is became " Aged ", now it says the "
> The
> Original Ginger Soda ".  It had a lot more bite when I was a kid.  I lived
> in Toledo Ohio until 1963 after we moved west I didn't see it again until
> the late 70's then only in California.  They started bottling here in the
> Northwest probably in the early 90's
> It is available in the stores now.
>
> Bruce Fallon
> Freeland WA. 98249
> bfallon at whidbey.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Grant" <jfgrant at zoomon.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 8:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT NuGrape, Beeman's Pepsin Gum etc (Country Store)
>
>
> I prefer Vernors Ginger Ale or Dad's Root Beer myself but I'm from
> Michigan
> where and when Verner's had REAL ginger in before Pepsi bought them
> out.  jg
> ----- Original Message -----
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
> >> RonMyers at wildblue.net
> >> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:26 AM
> >> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> >> Subject: Re: [AT] OT NuGrape, Beeman's Pepsin Gum etc (Country Store)
> >>
> >> I thought that ATIS stood for antique tractors but I guess I was wrong.
> >> What in the "H" does Grape soda have to do with tractors anyway.
> >> No wonder everyone is leaving this list.
> >> Ron.
> >>
> >>> Chuck,
> >>>  It sounds like you're describing my great Grandparents general store
> >> in
> >>> Southeastern Ohio. Stoneking (there's a name you never here anywhere)
> >>> General Store near Olive Green. I still have Grandpa's awards of being
> >> a
> >>> long time Sinclair Gasoline dealer. I recall the great big cheese
> >> wheel
> >>> covered by glass. Rotating bin of nails sold by the pound. REAL Penney
> >>> candy. Coca Cola cooler with the bottles in water. I give a bunch for
> >> the
> >>> big Coca Cola sign that was over the porch with his name on it. Thanks
> >> to
> >>> progress and the Big Muskie it was destroyed. :(
> >>> Rob
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Chuck
> >> Bealke
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:22 AM
> >>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT NuGrape, Beeman's Pepsin Gum etc (Country Store)
> >>>
> >>> Mercy, Dean, I thought it was regulation that the delightfully frigid
> >>> bottles from those coolers had to be downed while wet or wiped on your
> >>> shirt
> >>> if you were under 13.  In the mid-50s, in such country stores in
> >> Missouri
> >>> you might see a fetching likeness of a young Sandy Duncan on a painted
> >> RC
> >>> Cola sign. Those stores were wondrous places - worn out floors, pipe
> >>> tobacco
> >>> in the thin cans (Prince Albert sold well),  Bull Durham in the white
> >>> sacks
> >>> with pull strings, Cracker Jacks with a real plastic toy, always some
> >> new
> >>> candy or other snack, tube repair kits (like Monkey) and LOTS more.
> >> There
> >>> was one I could hike across creek, fields and woods to reach about a
> >> mile
> >>> from our farm, though I seldom had the coins, free time and permission
> >>> needed together.  Like most such, it had an outhouse best avoided in
> >> July.
> >>> Oh yeah, gas was about a quarter a gallon, including - if you wanted
> >> to
> >>> wait, your windshield wiped, oil checked and maybe some news of
> >> neighbors.
> >>>
> >>> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> >>>
> >>> On 5/29/2007 at 9:31 PM Dean Vinson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Ice-cold drinks in glass bottles, roger that.  Dad used to stop now
> >> and
> >>>>then with us kids at a dinky little gas station in Gavers, Ohio.  Old
> >>>>metal cooler in the corner, filled with pop bottles in icy water, with
> >>>>a faded red rag hanging right next to it so you could wipe off the
> >>>>bottle.
> >>>>
> >>>>Dean Vinson
> >>>
> >>>
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