"You do realize that in many small towns there are no more mom and pop grocery stores? "
Amen to that one. When I was a kid in the Fifties, there were two small grocery stores in our neighborhood, just up the block, plus a drug store and the barber shop where I got my hair cut. And I knew of at least six more small grocery stores in my small town. Yeah, there was a chain supermarket, but my parents only shopped there once a week, for things the small stores didn't carry.
Today? Every one of those "Mom & Pop" stores has been gone for decades.
Yep, even in a quiet bayou town in Louisiana, my maternal grandmother owned a neighborhood grocery in an old raised building. Less than 1/2 mile away was another grocery store on my paternal grandparent's street. These types of stores were scattered plus the fruit and vegetable trucks and the milk trucks that would go up and down the streets. Ooohh and the ice cream trucks and snowball stands - that was the life!
"You do realize that in many small towns there are no more mom and pop grocery stores? "
Amen to that one. When I was a kid in the Fifties, there were two small grocery stores in our neighborhood, just up the block, plus a drug store and the barber shop where I got my hair cut. And I knew of at least six more small grocery stores in my small town. Yeah, there was a chain supermarket, but my parents only shopped there once a week, for things the small stores didn't carry.
Today? Every one of those "Mom & Pop" stores has been gone for decades.
Yep, even in a quiet bayou town in Louisiana, my maternal grandmother owned a neighborhood grocery in an old raised building. Less than 1/2 mile away was another grocery store on my paternal grandparent's street. These types of stores were scattered plus the fruit and vegetable trucks and the milk trucks that would go up and down the streets. Ooohh and the ice cream trucks and snowball stands - that was the life!