An old country boy from East Tennessee, I grew up with a store just like these as a focal point in our lives. It was a critical part of our survival, along with the Sears catalog.
This brings a tear to my eye. As a kid, I loved going to Turmire's Grocery with my father. I remember all the old men that hung outside who would always greet us with a smile. Sadly, our simple way of living is being stripped away from us. My town is turning into every other cookie cutter city across America with mega stores, fast food everywhere, and unfettered immigration which is destroying the cultural make-up of a region our families have called home for over two centuries.
Unfortunately most little towns in my area are now being invaded by big city people who are trying to turn our nice little country town into another cookie cutter tourist playground. Ugh leave our little towns alone
The first store with all the signs is a place I use to go to as a kid with my uncle. This was Knight's Market and Feed Store up until the mid 80s or so. My uncle had a beef cattle farm about a mile down the road and we'd stop in the market on cold days when my uncle thought the cattle needed a little more than hay to keep them warm. I'd get a pop and a snack and my uncle would have a cup of coffee, then we'd load several bags of feed in the truck to take up to the farm. The market didn't have all those signs on it, the current owner is a collector and after he bought the market and the house next door, he decided to share his collection of signs with everyone. Every time I drive by the store I think of all the great times I had working with my uncle on the farm. Summers were full putting up hay and working in tobacco but winter was my favorite. I was back in school but I would still spend every weekend with my uncle and aunt, it was some of the best years of my youth. My uncle would ask if I wouldn't rather be at home playing with my friends and I told him I'd much rather be working with him on the farm.
I had a aunt and uncle that I used to help on their farm, peanuts,hay, cattle in Oklahoma, learned to drive on their farm good times. End of the summer when fixing to go home he would stick his hand in my pocket and when I checked it later would be 2-3 hundred bucks thought I was rich
As a city girl I never experienced these charmers. There is a country store I visited in Moultonboro New Hampshire though that is just like this. From the mid 1800s and still going. It used to be the Post Office for the area as well. It seems these general stores served many purposes for the community. Thanks for sharing!
Not in Appalachia, but my aunt and uncle owned a General Store in Vevay (southern Indiana). There were 2 old gas pumps from the early 30's, a big cooler full of pop, a huge Victorian key punch cash register, a meat counter in the back and a 4 seat soda fountain. I loved helping in the store when I was a kid. There was a large apartment upstairs filled with antiques. Last I heard, my cousin said she was sure it had been torn down. Thanks for bringing back some memories!
I’d sure like to step back in time a bit and walk into them stores and order me a royal crown cola, and drink it right there on the porch, with a bag of peanuts. Thank you.
Thank you for putting all these together in a video and the music is perfect for this. I use to live down the road from a little general store and would trade my pop bottles in for change to buy soda, candy, hoop cheese, etc. That place is gone now but not the memories. There is still an old general store open not far up the road though that has a nice little cafe in it and the typical old items, pot bellied stove in the back, candy, etc. Its called Leflers General Merchandise in the little PeeDee community, Montgomery Co., NC. They make there own pit cooked bar-b-cue there. There use to be a dozen places like this within 50 miles of me but they are almost all gone now. Such great memories from much better times.
When I was about 12 years old {1962} I would load up my Grandpa's GMC truck with watermelons (Black Diamonds and Charlston Greys) and off we would go to these old stores. I remember nothing but great times riding around with my Grandpa selling melons. Thank You so much for this video
I remember as kids when we would visit my grandparents and cousins. Two of my cousins lived across the road and my sister and I would go up to their house and the first place we went was to the old country store down the road. I can still hear the sounds of the old creeky steps and floors in the place and the squeaky screen door that lead into the store. Always had a couple of old timers sitting on the porch as you went in. Sure do miss those days!
I grew up in many old stores like this sitting around a wood stove listening to the old timers tell bear hunting & fishing stories,Most of the old timers have went on &now I'm the old timer looking for a good place to spin yarns (that's where you almost tell the truth)Blount & Monroe Co,That's some fine picking you're doing too ! Thank you and God bless
When I was a Trucker in the '70's running Coal down in Kentucky these stores were essential to me, and, the communities they served, not only as stores but social gatherings, I am always happy to see one ANYWHERE!!
I grew up listening to my dads stories of him and his brothers riding their horses to the Valentines general store down the road from their farm to get groceries and candy.
I used to cash in bottles for a cold one at Rockwoods store in Alburnett, Iowa, when I was a kid.Bucky Rockwood, the owner , was really nice to us kids.he passed away a few years ago and I got to have a tour of his place. I remember as a kid I always wondered what it would be like to go behind the counter where Bucky stood to ring up sales, so I went and stood at his cash register.on the floor where he always stood, there was a spot worn into the wooden floor about half an inch deep from Bucky standing there all those years ringing up purchases. I wish I could go back to those times and gat a cold pop and visit him again.
Not from Appalachia, but still a country boy. Growing up in the 80s, one of my earliest childhood memories is going to my grandparents house. They lived way out in the country and down the road from a country store just like this. I remember riding on a 3 wheeler with my uncle (before 3 wheelers were outlawed) down to the store and buying soda in glass bottles. Kids today have no idea what kind of freedom we had, no video games!
Still some of these places in my area. I always do my shopping there if I can. Good people, great stories, and I just like to try and spend my little bit of money with my own people.
It's a shame these old country stores are gone forever. How I remember the squeaky floors, the smell of burning firewood. I'm very fortunate to know what these were like. I used to look for empty RC, Pepsi, Upper 10 and Nehi Grape bottles. The store owners would pay 5ḉ per bottle. I'd spend the money on BB's and oatmeal cookies.☹
I remember these as a child I miss them how we gather n talk to each other. Even when we became teenagers we still wanted to go, young folks don't realize what they are missing today. I give anything to ride in grandpa truck an take one those hills a little faster so my stomach would feel funny n we would laugh. Silly memories but great memories for this now great-grandma. ♥️😇♥️
We had General Store down the road from me in SW Virginia. My friends and I would walk the ditches for pop bottles to cash in. I remember the farmers crowded around the pot bellied stove sitting on wooden pop bottle crates telling stories and ribbing each other. I learned more history about my area and the people in it than any school book could have taught. As many commenters have said, I miss that time. It was simpler and we didn't have as much as now but I think we appreciated it more, and the world seemed to make sense.
I remember old stores like this around Tennessee when I was young. The old looking, “even for then” bread advertisement screen front doors. The smells inside.
In my early teens I became an orphan. I lived in a small (then) southern Arkansas town named Mena. An older father of 12 and his mom took me in and I then lived in Cove, Ark. I had a boyfriend in Vandervort, Ark and when I would visit his home I would often jump on his horse and go riding up to the small general store there. There were always old timers sitting out front playing checkers and swapping stories. The old building smelled of antiquity. Fond memories now that I am 68.
Was happy to see the Stores from McMinn, Co. All of a sudden it was 1957 and I was chewin on a frozen Mars Bar on a warm summer day, Mom yelling at me to stay on the porch.
The Paintsville, Kentucky store "Webb's Grocery" is actually in neighboring Van Lear. The store serves as the gateway to Loretta Lynn's birthplace and childhood home in Butcher Holler which is just up the road a piece from the store. The store is owned and operated by Loretta's family ("Webb" was her maiden name). Thanks!
I remember some of the old stores and I have photos of Pruitt’s General Store where my grandmother worked for years. Good memories, thanks for sharing and have a blessed night!
Do you have any idea how many of these type stores I've been in during my life? OMG.... from Winona, Mississippi throughout the entire southeast, including the Appalachians, all the way to Alaska. Between the photos and the music, yours AND "Sunnyside', it brought tears to my eyes. Beautifully crafted work, as always! Thank you! I had to get a fresh mug of coffee and watch again! 💖 The nostalgia is bittersweet.
Walked through 14 states of Appalachia, and paddled through 10 on the Mississippi river, might have starved without these places being where they where when I was hungry.
You bet I'll subscribe. All of my folks came from Appalachia. They came from a little town called, Atkins, Va. My Mom and Pop had to leave and go north to find work in the 1930s, but we went back to visit now and then. My uncles used to make moonshine in those mountains back in the 1920s. Also, my dad was the youngest, so his job was to watch for government men at the bottom of the mountain and then raise the alert. Seeing these old places remind me so much of that time. I'm old now myself, 77, and live in the Philippines, but I truly miss the old places. Thanks so much for your videos.
I'm originally from Marion just five miles down the road from Atkins where your folks are from. Used to be a mostly farming community with some manufacturing. So much has changed over the years unfortunately. We can still reminisce though.
I can remember when every community here in Stokes County had a country store and some had more than one. One of these is Priddy's General Store which is featured in this video and is still in business today.
Man,I remember those old general stores in the late 60s to mid 70s between Noctor,ky.,Stanton, ky,Pine Ridge,ky..What a great time to be growing up. Thank God for great memories 🙏
When I was a kid in the early 60's, we would go to visit my aunt and uncle in the sticks of North Carolina. They ran a country store with two gas pumps.Phillips 66 . The store had old wood smell. The wood floors were so worn down that they used old license plates nailed down to cover the holes. The plates were worn down too. When we were ready to make the trip back home ,my uncle would give us a Coca-Cola and a paper bag for us pick out penny candy. Mary Janes, Squirrel Nut Zippers,Necco wafers,Tootsie Rolls,Fireballs. My aunt and uncle are long gone but the old store still stands or rather leans.They closed it in the 80's Gone but not forgotten.
I grew up in a little larger town in western Minnesota. We had a wonderful neighborhood store that was only a few blocks away. That store was another place those dimes and nickels would go. Today the little square concrete building is a private residence. Great memories though ...
My dad and uncle had a store like many of these in St Mary's Kentucky they ran it for 30 years. Have a lot of good memories from that time and miss them and the old store
Love the days of these old stores. My husband and I had one of these " convience stores for 23 years. Couldn't compete after our town put in Walmart super centers. I'm happy now that we sold when we did with these gas prices.
Shoutout Stokesville Market and Supply, Mount Solon, VA. I stop here frequently on my way to my hunting spots in the mountains. Last season was especially cold opening weekend of deer firearms season, so I actually drove from our camp, down off the mountain after dark to try to find some hand warmers. The store had none in stock, but the lady’s son was out back working and she went and got his attention. He gave me a whole ten pack out of his truck, and refused payment. Just asked that I come back and show him the deer on my way out. I was fortunate enough to shoot one and stopped by on my way home. Love these spots.
Cool pic. When I was young you would find a country store every 5 to 10 miles People had to be able to walk to the store . Today people would not think about walking 5 miles to the store . People use to be made of better stock .
indeed, when I was 8, my dad would give me a dollar and tell me to walk to the store 2 miles each way to get him a payday candy bar and a coke and I could buy what I wanted with the change. I would come home with a paper bag full of stuff. Sometimes I would gamble on the nickel slot machine in the back of the store and win a pot load of money.
I remember that in Delta Colorado we had one by the railroad I used to go to everyday after school for licorice whips. Then we had one on main street called Ocean to Ocean my grandma worked at. They had everything from Seed to Pots and Pans.💞
As a youngster I practicality grew up in my grandparent's general store in Duffield, Scott Co. VA. Sold anything you might need. Traded groceries for ginseng root for poor folks. Granddaddy loved his neighbors, gave credit to many, he was owed thousands when he died. Store closed in1968 and was torn down. Thanks for the memories!
My dad’s family was from Duffield, my uncle on my mom’s side owned a general store in Clinchport , Virginia. At 8 years old, My grandmother would give me a nickel for each blackbird I shot in her garden with my Daisy BB gun, that had been my uncle’s , which was a lot for a little boy to spend at that time. She had to stop pretty soon as I became a better shot.
I enjoyed seeing all the stores and locations! The Depot Bottom Country Store at 5.02 is located in McMinnville, Tennessee. They're still open!!! I usually get "The Griff" sandwich when I eat there.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller that is cool 😎 Love your videos, and learning about our heritage here in, what I believe to be, the best place in the country to live!
This was really good, There were a couple of stores there in Briceville that are probably not around anymore. One was Idles grocery, and another was Evans grocery, I dont remember the one that was across from the school, but I remember going to all three of them when I was young. your video brought back childhood memories. Thank you
Ginger's was a back-road store in Briceville and the one Allen Loop owns going up that graves Gap is another one that's been there for a long time that's still open
Yep, worked in pop pop's store in the mid 50s, " DeMarco's Crossan Ave Mkt." in Chelsea Heights, NJ. A cute little blond walked in one day ( Bobby Snockey), and I fell in love with her in 5 minutes!! lol I was 14, and she was 12!!
My adopted Grandfather used to tell me stories about McGee's Store in Yuma, Va....he grew up down the road from it and hung out there in his younger days....used to always pass an old store in Boones Creek, TN that I think served as a train station, also another old store that had a sign that said "Loafer's Glory" hanging outside it....I never did figure out if that was a brand of bread or if it described all the old timers sitting on the porch outside chatting all day lol
Country stores are a rarity. When I was a kid in the 80s, there were two of them close by where I live in central Arkansas. They carried a little bit of everything and to the delight of a kid with a sweet tooth, candy that by the piece was a dime.
If you get the chance to go to Boone, NC, there is a store there, the Mast General Store, if I remember correctly it has been there a few generations...thank you for this video, it brought back lots of memories of going to visit relatives in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina.
There was a little store in Buladeen,NC that hung half off he mountainside who’s name I can’t remember anymore being an old guy of 70. I loved stopping there when cruising through the twisty mtn roads in my youth,.
This really took me back in time. My greatpa and grandpa ran general stores from the 1920s until 1978. I would love to go back in time but that can’t happen on this side of eternity. But thanks so much because this video is the next best thing. God bless you all and thanks so much.
Sadly a lot of these stores have disappeared from my beloved North Georgia mountains. I grew up in walking distance from one,and spent many a day on the store's front porch in the porch swing or sitting on the liars bench .
i live in johnson county ky and only one of these still remains im 20 minutes from the loretta lynn original home place in butcher holler where she was raised in vanlear here in johnson county ky. if you visit you will stop at webb's grocery or the old number five store for a tour of the old homestead it was built in 1918 by the consolidated coal company and jan 26 1989 it was recognized as a historic place by the national register of historic places it's like stepping into a time machine
Love your videos. I'm a teen again. I'm going to Mrs. Bradley's Store on Authur Street off of 5th Ave. Not far from Moses School. She ran credit for the neighborhood. Their was a store across from Moses School that was in-between 2 streets. I went to school with their daughter Wendy but can't remember the last name. These were both in Knoxville.Wendy & her family lived above store. Thanks for your videos.
An old country boy from East Tennessee, I grew up with a store just like these as a focal point in our lives. It was a critical part of our survival, along with the Sears catalog.
Indeed- I remember looking through the sears catolog as a kid and dreaming
You remember you used to be able to buy a shotgun from the Sears catalog. Good old days.
So did I 421 Shopping Center it was on what was 421 at that time now Bristol Caverns HWY but sadly about two months ago it burned down 😢
This brings a tear to my eye. As a kid, I loved going to Turmire's Grocery with my father. I remember all the old men that hung outside who would always greet us with a smile. Sadly, our simple way of living is being stripped away from us. My town is turning into every other cookie cutter city across America with mega stores, fast food everywhere, and unfettered immigration which is destroying the cultural make-up of a region our families have called home for over two centuries.
Thank you for sharing your memories my friend.
Unfortunately most little towns in my area are now being invaded by big city people who are trying to turn our nice little country town into another cookie cutter tourist playground. Ugh leave our little towns alone
The first store with all the signs is a place I use to go to as a kid with my uncle. This was Knight's Market and Feed Store up until the mid 80s or so. My uncle had a beef cattle farm about a mile down the road and we'd stop in the market on cold days when my uncle thought the cattle needed a little more than hay to keep them warm. I'd get a pop and a snack and my uncle would have a cup of coffee, then we'd load several bags of feed in the truck to take up to the farm. The market didn't have all those signs on it, the current owner is a collector and after he bought the market and the house next door, he decided to share his collection of signs with everyone. Every time I drive by the store I think of all the great times I had working with my uncle on the farm. Summers were full putting up hay and working in tobacco but winter was my favorite. I was back in school but I would still spend every weekend with my uncle and aunt, it was some of the best years of my youth. My uncle would ask if I wouldn't rather be at home playing with my friends and I told him I'd much rather be working with him on the farm.
Was this grainger county TN?
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller yes, that's where it is.
I had a aunt and uncle that I used to help on their farm, peanuts,hay, cattle in Oklahoma, learned to drive on their farm good times. End of the summer when fixing to go home he would stick his hand in my pocket and when I checked it later would be 2-3 hundred bucks thought I was rich
As a city girl I never experienced these charmers. There is a country store I visited in Moultonboro New Hampshire though that is just like this. From the mid 1800s and still going. It used to be the Post Office for the area as well. It seems these general stores served many purposes for the community. Thanks for sharing!
yes ma'am, thanks for watching my friend
God bless these markets they fed many good folk and put things on credit!!! Not done today.
indeed, well said
Not in Appalachia, but my aunt and uncle owned a General Store in Vevay (southern Indiana). There were 2 old gas pumps from the early 30's, a big cooler full of pop, a huge Victorian key punch cash register, a meat counter in the back and a 4 seat soda fountain. I loved helping in the store when I was a kid. There was a large apartment upstairs filled with antiques. Last I heard, my cousin said she was sure it had been torn down. Thanks for bringing back some memories!
Loved reading that
Lots of cool old pictures!
Yes Ma'am, Thanks for watching :)
I’d sure like to step back in time a bit and walk into them stores and order me a royal crown cola, and drink it right there on the porch, with a bag of peanuts.
Thank you.
You and I both, I miss those days
You forgot the moonpie😎
@@dirtbikeheaven1129 indeed, love it
What beautiful treasures!!!!
Old country stores !!!
My grandpa had one. What a memories!!
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Thank you for putting all these together in a video and the music is perfect for this. I use to live down the road from a little general store and would trade my pop bottles in for change to buy soda, candy, hoop cheese, etc. That place is gone now but not the memories. There is still an old general store open not far up the road though that has a nice little cafe in it and the typical old items, pot bellied stove in the back, candy, etc. Its called Leflers General Merchandise in the little PeeDee community, Montgomery Co., NC. They make there own pit cooked bar-b-cue there. There use to be a dozen places like this within 50 miles of me but they are almost all gone now. Such great memories from much better times.
Yes Sir, dollar general has killed mom and pop country stores
Reminds me of the movie " Fried Green Tomatoes" !!
@@JEANSDEMARCO indeed my friend
I'm 50 and I have such fond memories of some of the old general stores that's long and forgotten
Me too my friend
What beautiful set of pictures, sad for the one that was on fire... ty for sharing
Me too, it was a great store
I love this tribute. The music is so peaceful.
thank you my friend!
When I was about 12 years old {1962} I would load up my Grandpa's GMC truck with watermelons (Black Diamonds and Charlston Greys) and off we would go to these old stores. I remember nothing but great times riding around with my Grandpa selling melons. Thank You so much for this video
Great memories my friend, thanks for sharing
I remember as kids when we would visit my grandparents and cousins. Two of my cousins lived across the road and my sister and I would go up to their house and the first place we went was to the old country store down the road. I can still hear the sounds of the old creeky steps and floors in the place and the squeaky screen door that lead into the store. Always had a couple of old timers sitting on the porch as you went in. Sure do miss those days!
Such great memories
I grew up in many old stores like this sitting around a wood stove listening to the old timers tell bear hunting & fishing stories,Most of the old timers have went on &now I'm the old timer looking for a good place to spin yarns (that's where you almost tell the truth)Blount & Monroe Co,That's some fine picking you're doing too ! Thank you and God bless
Yes Sir, I too, grew up like that. I miss those folks and all their stories. Im doing my best to keep their stories alive through this channel
I LOVED GOING IN COUNTRY STORES YOU FELT SO WELCOME !
Yes ma’am, great memories
When I was a Trucker in the '70's running Coal down in Kentucky these stores were essential to me, and, the communities they served, not only as stores but social gatherings, I am always happy to see one ANYWHERE!!
Indeed my friwnd
The opening violin makes me so happy I almost weep I love it so much , it brings back so many memories ,can’t say more thnx JD
That’s one of my favorite songs too thank you brother
I grew up listening to my dads stories of him and his brothers riding their horses to the Valentines general store down the road from their farm to get groceries and candy.
Great memories
Love going in the old stores...they have unique personalities. Thanks 👍👍❤
Yes ma’am, I love these places
My favorite part of traveling is the little obscure towns and shops I end up going to along the way
Me too!
I used to cash in bottles for a cold one at Rockwoods store in Alburnett, Iowa, when I was a kid.Bucky Rockwood, the owner , was really nice to us kids.he passed away a few years ago and I got to have a tour of his place. I remember as a kid I always wondered what it would be like to go behind the counter where Bucky stood to ring up sales, so I went and stood at his cash register.on the floor where he always stood, there was a spot worn into the wooden floor about half an inch deep from Bucky standing there all those years ringing up purchases. I wish I could go back to those times and gat a cold pop and visit him again.
Man, thats a great story, I enjoyed imagining it as I read it. Thanks so much for sharing friend.
If I had a “cold soda” for every time I cashed in my empty’s : well …………….🙂
@@normsweet1710 indeed
Not from Appalachia, but still a country boy. Growing up in the 80s, one of my earliest childhood memories is going to my grandparents house. They lived way out in the country and down the road from a country store just like this. I remember riding on a 3 wheeler with my uncle (before 3 wheelers were outlawed) down to the store and buying soda in glass bottles. Kids today have no idea what kind of freedom we had, no video games!
great memories!
3 wheelers are outlawed? See them everywhere in Indiana. Why would they have been outlawed? 🤔
Still some of these places in my area. I always do my shopping there if I can. Good people, great stories, and I just like to try and spend my little bit of money with my own people.
exactly, we all should support these mom and pop stores. I do every time I see one
I had forgotten about the flour sack dresses until I saw the bags of flour.
Great memories
It's a shame these old country stores are gone forever. How I remember the squeaky floors, the smell of burning firewood. I'm very fortunate to know what these were like.
I used to look for empty RC, Pepsi, Upper 10 and Nehi Grape bottles. The store owners would pay 5ḉ per bottle. I'd spend the money on BB's and oatmeal cookies.☹
Great memories
Hey brother Appalachian I see so many memories in these pics thank you I appreciate it so much
Thanks so much brother
I remember these as a child I miss them how we gather n talk to each other. Even when we became teenagers we still wanted to go, young folks don't realize what they are missing today. I give anything to ride in grandpa truck an take one those hills a little faster so my stomach would feel funny n we would laugh. Silly memories but great memories for this now great-grandma. ♥️😇♥️
Those are great memories
Awsome video
Thank you Sir
We had General Store down the road from me in SW Virginia. My friends and I would walk the ditches for pop bottles to cash in.
I remember the farmers crowded around the pot bellied stove sitting on wooden pop bottle crates telling stories and ribbing each other. I learned more history about my area and the people in it than any school book could have taught.
As many commenters have said, I miss that time. It was simpler and we didn't have as much as now but I think we appreciated it more, and the world seemed to make sense.
Well said my friend
I remember old stores like this around Tennessee when I was young. The old looking, “even for then” bread advertisement screen front doors. The smells inside.
Indeed, I sure miss those days
Sure brings back memories I loved going to one from the time I could walk with my dad
Amen to that
In my early teens I became an orphan. I lived in a small (then) southern Arkansas town named Mena. An older father of 12 and his mom took me in and I then lived in Cove, Ark. I had a boyfriend in Vandervort, Ark and when I would visit his home I would often jump on his horse and go riding up to the small general store there. There were always old timers sitting out front playing checkers and swapping stories. The old building smelled of antiquity. Fond memories now that I am 68.
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Brings back great memories. Thanks for sharing
Thank you
Was happy to see the Stores from McMinn, Co. All of a sudden it was 1957 and I was chewin on a frozen Mars Bar on a warm summer day, Mom yelling at me to stay on the porch.
your comment made me smile, thanks for taking me back
The Paintsville, Kentucky store "Webb's Grocery" is actually in neighboring Van Lear. The store serves as the gateway to Loretta Lynn's birthplace and childhood home in Butcher Holler which is just up the road a piece from the store. The store is owned and operated by Loretta's family ("Webb" was her maiden name). Thanks!
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Small town Texas has a lot of these. Super fun to browse through them.
great memories
Very cool
thank you Sir
These little family owned store had the best food. Crown bolgna Rc Cola an a moon pie. Miss those days
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I remember some of the old stores and I have photos of Pruitt’s General Store where my grandmother worked for years. Good memories, thanks for sharing and have a blessed night!
Thanks for sharing friend
I try to imagine life around these stores at the time? I wish I could have experience it? thanks for the great photos of these precious stores🥰
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I WATCHED THIS VIDEO AGAIN ! LOVE IT !!!!!
Thank you Nancy
I remember a few of the old country stores back in the early 1960 we would pass by on the school bus
Great memories
Just beautiful,
God bless
Thank you ❤️
Do you have any idea how many of these type stores I've been in during my life? OMG.... from Winona, Mississippi throughout the entire southeast, including the Appalachians, all the way to Alaska. Between the photos and the music, yours AND "Sunnyside', it brought tears to my eyes. Beautifully crafted work, as always! Thank you! I had to get a fresh mug of coffee and watch again! 💖 The nostalgia is bittersweet.
Thank you Christy 💜
Walked through 14 states of Appalachia, and paddled through 10 on the Mississippi river, might have starved without these places being where they where when I was hungry.
AMAZING! This made my heart tingle. ❤
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You bet I'll subscribe. All of my folks came from Appalachia. They came from a little town called, Atkins, Va. My Mom and Pop had to leave and go north to find work in the 1930s, but we went back to visit now and then. My uncles used to make moonshine in those mountains back in the 1920s. Also, my dad was the youngest, so his job was to watch for government men at the bottom of the mountain and then raise the alert. Seeing these old places remind me so much of that time. I'm old now myself, 77, and live in the Philippines, but I truly miss the old places. Thanks so much for your videos.
I enjoyed reading your story, God bless
I'm originally from Marion just five miles down the road from Atkins where your folks are from. Used to be a mostly farming community with some manufacturing. So much has changed over the years unfortunately. We can still reminisce though.
I miss those times and the people.
Me too my friend
I can remember when every community here in Stokes County had a country store and some had more than one. One of these is Priddy's General Store which is featured in this video and is still in business today.
Thats awesome
Priddys on Sheppard mill lotto fond indeed memories indeed
Yep Sheppard mill rd
When I was younger there were several Mom and Pops back home in Virginia. All are gone now as the folks who ran them passed on. I miss them
🙏 thanks so much for sharing, god bless
Charming, thank you!
Thank you!
What a wonderful video. I very much enjoyed it. I am glad to see, by some of the comments, that stores like the ones, in your video, still exist.
Indeed, thanks for watching my friend
Man,I remember those old general stores in the late 60s to mid 70s between Noctor,ky.,Stanton, ky,Pine Ridge,ky..What a great time to be growing up. Thank God for great memories 🙏
indeed, in many ways it was the golden age of America
Another outstanding production! Thank you!
Thank you mike!
When I was a kid in the early 60's, we would go to visit my aunt and uncle in the sticks of North Carolina. They ran a country store with two gas pumps.Phillips 66 . The store had old wood smell.
The wood floors were so worn down that they used old license plates nailed down to cover the holes. The plates were worn down too. When we were ready to make the trip back home ,my uncle would give us a Coca-Cola and a paper bag for us pick out penny candy. Mary Janes, Squirrel Nut Zippers,Necco wafers,Tootsie Rolls,Fireballs. My aunt and uncle are long gone but the old store still stands or rather leans.They closed it in the 80's Gone but not forgotten.
man, your story took me back, especially the license plates covering holes. thanks for sharing your memories
I grew up in a little larger town in western Minnesota. We had a wonderful neighborhood store that was only a few blocks away. That store was another place those dimes and nickels would go. Today the little square concrete building is a private residence. Great memories though ...
such a home town feeling love it thank you!! 😊
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My dad and uncle had a store like many of these in St Mary's Kentucky they ran it for 30 years. Have a lot of good memories from that time and miss them and the old store
Indeed, lots of great memories
Love the days of these old stores. My husband and I had one of these " convience stores for 23 years. Couldn't compete after our town put in Walmart super centers. I'm happy now that we sold when we did with these gas prices.
Amen
Shoutout Stokesville Market and Supply, Mount Solon, VA. I stop here frequently on my way to my hunting spots in the mountains. Last season was especially cold opening weekend of deer firearms season, so I actually drove from our camp, down off the mountain after dark to try to find some hand warmers. The store had none in stock, but the lady’s son was out back working and she went and got his attention. He gave me a whole ten pack out of his truck, and refused payment. Just asked that I come back and show him the deer on my way out. I was fortunate enough to shoot one and stopped by on my way home. Love these spots.
Thats good people right there
ah the memories of my childhood in TN
indeed my friend
Cool pic. When I was young you would find a country store every 5 to 10 miles People had to be able to walk to the store . Today people would not think about walking 5 miles to the store . People use to be made of better stock .
indeed, when I was 8, my dad would give me a dollar and tell me to walk to the store 2 miles each way to get him a payday candy bar and a coke and I could buy what I wanted with the change. I would come home with a paper bag full of stuff. Sometimes I would gamble on the nickel slot machine in the back of the store and win a pot load of money.
Butler Tennessee Appalachian
Mountains where I was raised
Red Irish Rose have never been that happy since then!
Indeed, a beautiful area friend
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Would take a week to a week to tell it all.
@@redirishrose9857 it would be a great time tho
I remember that in Delta Colorado we had one by the railroad I used to go to everyday after school for licorice whips. Then we had one on main street called Ocean to Ocean my grandma worked at. They had everything from Seed to Pots and Pans.💞
such sweet memories
As a youngster I practicality grew up in my grandparent's general store in Duffield, Scott Co. VA. Sold anything you might need. Traded groceries for ginseng root for poor folks. Granddaddy loved his neighbors, gave credit to many, he was owed thousands when he died.
Store closed in1968 and was torn down.
Thanks for the memories!
That’s a familiar story throughout the good people who ran these stores, thanks for sharing your story friend
My dad’s family was from Duffield, my uncle on my mom’s side owned a general store in Clinchport , Virginia. At 8 years old, My grandmother would give me a nickel for each blackbird I shot in her garden with my Daisy BB gun, that had been my uncle’s , which was a lot for a little boy to spend at that time. She had to stop pretty soon as I became a better shot.
@@martinmaddox5315 what a great story, thanks for sharing that
I enjoyed seeing all the stores and locations! The Depot Bottom Country Store at 5.02 is located in McMinnville, Tennessee. They're still open!!! I usually get "The Griff" sandwich when I eat there.
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Beautiful 🇨🇦 ❤
Thank you! 😊
great video of a great people country
Thank you friend
I grew up in the holler behind the one you used for the thumbnail! Bug Mans General Store. Lakeshore Rd Bean Station Tennessee! Awesome
its a great area my friend, I will be there today filming
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller that is cool 😎 Love your videos, and learning about our heritage here in, what I believe to be, the best place in the country to live!
It was great seeing Hathcock's Grocery in Brent, Alabama. Our youngest son was named for Brent, AL, "the home of Alabama's most beautiful girls".
That’s awesome
This was really good, There were a couple of stores there in Briceville that are probably not around anymore. One was Idles grocery, and another was Evans grocery, I dont remember the one that was across from the school, but I remember going to all three of them when I was young. your video brought back childhood memories. Thank you
Yes ma’am, thanks for watching
Ginger's was a back-road store in Briceville and the one Allen Loop owns going up that graves Gap is another one that's been there for a long time that's still open
Yep, worked in pop pop's store in the mid 50s, " DeMarco's Crossan Ave Mkt." in Chelsea Heights, NJ. A cute little blond walked in one day ( Bobby Snockey), and I fell in love with her in 5 minutes!! lol I was 14, and she was 12!!
how old was she?
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller She was 12 & I was 14!!
Wow! Great memories! Thank you so much!
I miss these stores
My adopted Grandfather used to tell me stories about McGee's Store in Yuma, Va....he grew up down the road from it and hung out there in his younger days....used to always pass an old store in Boones Creek, TN that I think served as a train station, also another old store that had a sign that said "Loafer's Glory" hanging outside it....I never did figure out if that was a brand of bread or if it described all the old timers sitting on the porch outside chatting all day lol
those are great memories my friend, you are blessed
We still have 1 old country store in operation, at Cades (West Tenn, between Milan & Bradford). Best bologna sandwich around!
That’s awesome
Country stores are a rarity. When I was a kid in the 80s, there were two of them close by where I live in central Arkansas. They carried a little bit of everything and to the delight of a kid with a sweet tooth, candy that by the piece was a dime.
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Now we can buy these up an reopen them!!!!
amen
Neat slideshow. Then I realized I've also photographed a few of these places. Then I realized I've shopped in a couple of these.
Great stores
I can remember well going in old store with my dad when I was a boy the old wooden floors they where nothing like today
indeed, I remember license plates nailed to the wooden floor over the holes
thank You!
Thank you ma’am
Love this story! Thank you so much! This channel is addictive in a good way! Patricia Gambino Harrington
Thank you so much Patricia 😊
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller you are welcome! LOVE THIS CHANNEL
We still have some here in the Northern Sierras Ca. Much better atmosphere than a mall
Awesom
If you get the chance to go to Boone, NC, there is a store there, the Mast General Store, if I remember correctly it has been there a few generations...thank you for this video, it brought back lots of memories of going to visit relatives in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina.
Thank you friend
There was a little store in Buladeen,NC that hung half off he mountainside who’s name I can’t remember anymore being an old guy of 70.
I loved stopping there when cruising through the twisty mtn roads in my youth,.
Great memories friend
This really took me back in time. My greatpa and grandpa ran general stores from the 1920s until 1978. I would love to go back in time but that can’t happen on this side of eternity. But thanks so much because this video is the next best thing. God bless you all and thanks so much.
Thank you Bubba
That's cool. I could show you 3 or 4 more in central kentucky. They been closed for long time but they been there for more than 100 years
Id love to see some photos of them sometime
Thanks for this
Thank you friend
Sadly a lot of these stores have disappeared from my beloved North Georgia mountains. I grew up in walking distance from one,and spent many a day on the store's front porch in the porch swing or sitting on the liars bench .
Yes indeed
Thank you Fer a good video...brangs back memories
Glad you enjoyed it friend
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Love it. Appalachia is a wonderful place
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It sure is. Love my life in Anderson County Tn.
@@shesalady5258 amen
This was so enjoyable, thank you.
Thank you friend
i live in johnson county ky and only one of these still remains im 20 minutes from the loretta lynn original home place in butcher holler where she was raised in vanlear here in johnson county ky. if you visit you will stop at webb's grocery or the old number five store for a tour of the old homestead it was built in 1918 by the consolidated coal company and jan 26 1989 it was recognized as a historic place by the national register of historic places it's like stepping into a time machine
So cool
The Paintsville KY store brought me back some memories cuz that's where my dad is from
Great memories
So cool! There was a similar store near my grandparents' farm in GARFIELD TX. Called Albert Brown's Grocery. I remember it from the 50s.
Great memories
Love go into an old fashioned General Store. Recognized a few of them.
Great memories
So calming no matter the subject.
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Love your videos. I'm a teen again. I'm going to Mrs. Bradley's Store on Authur Street off of 5th Ave. Not far from Moses School. She ran credit for the neighborhood. Their was a store across from Moses School that was in-between 2 streets. I went to school with their daughter Wendy but can't remember the last name. These were both in Knoxville.Wendy & her family lived above store. Thanks for your videos.
That’s beautiful, thanks so much for sharing those memories
Got to love this video. Thank you.
yes sir!