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

[RonMyers at wildblue.net]

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
>
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> 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.
>
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> 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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