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General Store
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March 1939. "Small Mexican grocery store. San Antonio, Texas."
Look at al the items that are still familiar today ! 😋 Hershey's and Argo still have the same packaging.
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It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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I'd shop there, especially because they still have the non p.c. Aunt Jemima pancake mix!😊 Bob
as a Kid I remember small places some what like that when we go visit relatives in Tennessee just small one room mom and pop local grocery . / some hardware . I remember one of them also sold penny ( may have been 2 cent) packs of daisy BB's 😁
speaky of such places a couple miles from us a small grocery store closing up no way for them to compete with wally world about 10 miles away or a dollar store that opened up a couple years back a block away from them
sad to see them go but when the big stores can sell items way less than the local place could even buy them
Went in a place like that in Ohio County Kentucky many times with Dad so he could pay on his sisters bill. No cash register just kept a tab for her.
Ditch-Runner,
I remember as a small boy in the '40's my dad would take me to a small deli in Peoria, IL - one room w/ a wooden floor. Ten years later while visiting the grandparents in Indy, he would take me to Shapiro's. They had a wooden floor also but now they have multiple locations and while the food is great the ambience just isn't there.
there is just something about old stores and wooden floors lighting that enough to see by at the best . but the owners were normally the ones manning the store day in and day out 7 days a week
same with a few old cafes we would stop by , I remember my mom would go into the kitchen and help at "Miss Neals " a tiny place a few tables and a counter with maybe a 1/2 dozen stools on old 25A in TN . my parents had been friends with her long before I came along . same thing it was like just going into some ones home . long gone days for sure
There was a store at the end of my street - Jean's - run by a little old lady. Wood floors and shelves. A check out counter with a large sink with city water, but it also had a working pitcher pump. Beneath the counter a display of Tasty-Kake pastries
Package of cupcakes were marked $.13 or 2/$.25 ... a weekend treat ! I remember there a real (42 gal.) barrel of dill pickles and a 2gal. glass jar of pickled eggs by the manual cash register.
There was a very large Oak tree in the middle of the parking lot, the bows covered the width of the lot.
The little old lady eventually retired, sold out to 7/11 that promptly cut down the tree :-(
A sentimental piece of my very early childhood gone ... For a Slurpee !
in Wva we had "company" stores where we spent script and kept a running tab. as Tennessee Ernie Ford sang, "owe my soul to the company store."
There's a family-owned store 5 miles from me. It is run, and staffed, by grandchildren and great grandchildren of the founder. Half the building is hardware, stocked with a lot of great stuff that you can't find at an Ace. The other half is an appliance store with great discounts on the big names. The floors are 10 and 12 inch hardwood planks on 3x12 joists on 12-inch centers. Massive construction. The best part is that the warehouse is in the basement accessed by an ancient manually operated elevator. . . no motor, just pull on a rope much like an old chainfall.
...There is a nearby General sore not far from home, Landers Mercantile, owned by Mr Landers... wood floor, old metal ceiling tile...carried everything from square bales & feed to blue jeans and jaw traps, its still there...the only "clerk" Mr Landers had, is the current owner...he added a patio and serves hamburgers now, along with all the other stuff...strangers not from the area go there and mostly gawk...