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

[Richard Fink Sr]

I would say that all of us that can remember them have old tractors 
that we relate it to.
But i could be wrong
R Fink
PA


At 12:26 AM 5/31/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>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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