I think in another life and time I would have liked to have had a General Store. Not the junk food laden convenience store that's open 24/7 of today, but the old, creaky floored one stop gathering place of the '20's and '30's.
You know like Ike Godsey's store in the t.v series 'The Waltons'. It would be the kind of place where you could come to buy a bag of flour, horseshoe nails, gumdrops and butter.
On the shelves there would be wide mouth jars of licorice and cobalt blue bottles of milk of magnesia. Big brown glass bottles of tonics would be kept up high and jars of buttons would sit amongst bolts of cotton and gingham...
This paper roll once sat in my grandfathers butcher shop because back then, there were no plastic bags...
Things were wrapped with brown twine and plain paper...
A simpler time.
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I actually remember stores that still looked like this in the 1940's and 50's. I was a little girl visiting my grandma in the ,then, very small town of Napa here in California. There were wood floors, wood shelves for canned goods and the same kind of brown paper to wrap things with. Always, in the cold weather, there would be a fire going in an old free standing stove and men sitting around the stove in chairs talking to each other. My uncle would give me pennies for penny candy and then I would go outside and play with some big old dog that was waiting for someone inside. Life was slower and people were friendly and children were safe.
Thanks for a memory that was almost forgotten.
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