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

Fri Jun 1 13:47:14 PDT 2007

Hey Mattias I got them mostly off that horrible grape soda and talking
tractors again didn't I.
Ron

> 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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