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

[Larry D Goss]

But Ron, we're talking about old tastes whether it's summertime drinks, old 
tractors, farming styles, or just nostalgic childhood memories.  In my book, 
they're very similar things.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RonMyers at wildblue.net>
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Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:26 AM
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
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>> 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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