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

John Grant jfgrant at zoomon.net
Thu May 31 08:52:31 PDT 2007


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
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From: <RonMyers at wildblue.net>
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Subject: Re: [AT] OT NuGrape, Beeman's Pepsin Gum etc (Country Store)


> OK,  I'm driving MY Case LA down the road what should I drink Nehi grape
> soda or Coca cola or Royal Crown Cola.
> You got to be kidding.
> Ron
>
>> Ron, if you have any tractor questions to ask, fire away.  If not, don't
>> berate people for just sitting around chatting.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
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>> RonMyers at wildblue.net
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>> 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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