[AT] OT NuGrape, LAX

Thu May 31 18:30:45 PDT 2007

If ya need a good laxative drink a few of them grape sodas, tractor 
reference you can grease the seat if ya stay on it long enough:-)
Kevin


>From: "Rick Weaver" <Rick_Weaver at hilton.com>
>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT NuGrape, Beeman's Pepsin Gum etc (Country  Store)
>Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:08:38 -0500
>
>Ron,
>
>There you go again, berating the people who happen at this time to not
>have a tractor question to talk about.  I guess the only people who rate
>to say something on this list are the ones you approve of, who have
>restored or are restoring a tractor?
>
>Didya get up on the wrong side of the bed today?
>
>Rick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
>RonMyers at wildblue.net
>Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:31 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT NuGrape, Beeman's Pepsin Gum etc (Country Store)
>
>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"
> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > 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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