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

RonMyers at wildblue.net RonMyers at wildblue.net
Thu May 31 08:30:37 PDT 2007


Larry I wouldn't have said anything but 48 e-mails on grape soda sickening
the stuff taste awful to start with.
Lets get this back to tractors with an occasional off topic.
How many of you guys actually own an old tractor that you are restoring or
have restored. Not one that you picked up and got it running and drive it
around the house once a year.

Please
Ron

> 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>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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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
>>> 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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