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

[Danny Tabor]

I have to agree with you, Rick. The stories and
memories shared on ATIS won't be found in text books.
Thats what I used to enjoy about Cecil Monsons
writings for the list, he wasn't afraid to talk about
his life and experiences and not hold back just
because this is a tractor list.
       Its funny how talking about soda or anything
really can bring memories of the past to a person. I
can't help but to think about the time I had taken
Elmer Janney (now passed) to the Gap diner (PA) and he
started the conversation by saying.    "Of course it
was a lot different then but this is where I drank my
first Coca Cola"  It turned out as a child his father
took him along to Gap, Pa too meet with a couple Case
salesmen about purchasing a new thresher. The salesmen
purchased him and his father a Coke before sitting
down and discussing details of their thresher.
        I don't know if it was the soda that helped
him remember that day so well or not. I do know it was
soda that started the conversation and took it to a
time and place my generation and others after mine
will never see. And so I enjoy all the conversations
on the list from times gone by, no matter what topic
triggers them.

Danny Tabor


--- Rick Weaver <Rick_Weaver at hilton.com> wrote:

> 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
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On
> Behalf Of
> RonMyers at wildblue.net
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:26 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> 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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