[AT] OT NuGrape, Beeman's Pepsin Gum etc (Country Store)
Cecil Bearden
crbearden at copper.net
Fri Jun 1 15:13:30 PDT 2007
I really liked that grape soda. When I worked at the MF dealer as a
kid, I spent most of my wages ($1.00/hr) drinking the stuff. One
afternoon in July it was so hot and I was mowing the tractor lot with a
B7 Allis with a 36 in mower deck. I had to start all the tractors and
move them then mow and them move them back. Learned how to jump start
real good at 12. I was so thirsty I drank 3 grape sodas one after
another. I didn't feel well in about 15 minutes. Still had to mow the
lot and move the tractors too. Didn't have one for another year or
so...
Since I retired I have been trying to repair what Dad has torn up for
the past 5 years. He is getting ahead of me still even though I am
working full time at repair. Got the 6000 Ford running the post driver
then it started raining and we can't finish the fence we started in
March it is too wet when we have time to work on it. I pulled the JD
400 backhoe in and put new 2/0 cables and a new 900 amp battery in it,
one with threaded posts instead of lead terminals. It now starts
without ether. I also got the leak stopped in the hydraulics reserve
tank, but the oil pan started leaking!!! I started working on the power
steering on the 930 case yesterday and made a trip into town to get hyd.
fittings this morning when I had to go to the chiropractor. I got
approval for some chiropractic work from my insurance and the Dr. has
got me standing straight and actually feeling like doing something. I
had 2 discs bulged... I had to convert the pwr strng fittings from
inverted flare and found an old military hose that had the inverted
flare reusable ends. However the brass pipe thd to inv flare fitting
stripped and I have to find another one.
If it ever stops raining, I have about 40 acres of prairie hay and 140
acres of bermuda to cut and bale. Luckily I got the triticale cut and
baled when we had 2 days without rain. The only dry weather we had I
went to Omaha to get an old clipper seed cleaner to clean wheat for for
sale. Looks like the wheat crop won't be good enough to sale, the
grains are shrunk from the late freeze and the rust is about to get it
now.....
I still got a wheat truck to change the cab on and another cab and power
steering to install on a ford roll back truck before I can work on the
old Military 4wd forklift I bought...
Ahhh retirement!! If the retirement check was better I would hire
someone to do this and go find a job....
Cecil in OKla
RonMyers at wildblue.net wrote:
> 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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