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Posted 1 year ago
Cokeman1959
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My dad has been sick since January and so I have been with him. While watching the news this morning they were talking about food deserts in Atlanta. Dad started talking about when he was a kid and the rolling store coming to the mill village where he lived. He was born in 1940. It was drawn by horse. Anybody remember?
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We had a bakery truck come to house . It was a real treat if we could buy something but truck smelled like heaven ! We didn't have a food truck that I recall. I was in CA.
Hope your Dad is feeling better it is so hard to see our parents ill but savor the memories he shares with you . I am glad that I took time to listen to all of the old stories by my parents and grandparents . Take care !
I remember the Milk,Butter and Egg man
I remember the horse drawn Rag man ( yelling Rags for sale!!) And buy rags and old newspapers by weight. Us kids used to put wet newspapers in the middle of the bundle for added weight.
Fruit & Veggies for sale peddler!!
I was born in 46
Stuff
Mani...Love you!
Ed..I member the milk man and playing with the insulated box at the front door:)
Stuff....Thanks for the memory you shared and I told Dad how you soaked the newspapers in the middle and he laughed so hard. Thank you!
Thanks everyone for stopping by and looking and loving!
Cokeman1959, I'm sorry to read that your father isn't well. :-(
I wasn't truly familiar with the rolling store concept (I grew up in accessible suburbia, and the most we had was somebody who went around in a stationwagon selling eggs and dairy products), so I had to look it up:
https://time.com/4344621/history-rolling-store/
https://www.murraycountymuseum.com/rs.html
https://www.louisianafolklife.org/lt/articles_essays/LFJrollingstore.html
Here's a horse-drawn rolling store for ya:
https://www.scpahistory.com/
keramikos,Thank you for the thoughts about my dad. I Appreciate it very much. Thanks also for the links. The Murray County museum link is cool as I am only about 30 minutes from chatsworth georgia. I will show my dad the horse drawn photo in the morning. Thank you again....
Cokeman1959, You're very welcome. :-)
I was hoping to find a picture of a horse-drawn rolling store nearer to your neck of the woods, but that single picture was the only one I found. I must not be holding my mouth right. :-(
However, it intrigued me because it had a seven digit phone number listed for contact.
I explored the possibility that there were Amish in or near Eldredsvilla, PA, and that Estella was a friendly non-Amish person who was a point of contact. No joy.
Then I explored Mennonites, and bingo:
*snip*
History of the Churches of Sullivan County
The Mennonites
Estella
*snip*
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~pasulliv/churches/Adona.htm
A couple more rolling store links:
https://raycityhistory.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/harveys-supermarket-served-rural-residents-with-rolling-stores/
http://grundych.org/03_Ind/The%20Rolling%20Store%20by%20Carl%20Wayne%20Goodman.pdf
Speaking of food deserts in Atlanta, rolling stores persisted there at least until 2017:
(archive.is copy of "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/us/atlanta-food-rolling-stores.html")
https://archive.ph/0Ph1L
That would explain this entry:
https://agr.georgia.gov/retailers
Whoops.
About the Estella Mennonite church, which seems to have persisted at least until 1982:
(Tiny url link for "https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Living_Hope_Fellowship_(Forksville,_Pennsylvania,_USA)," because CW S&T software doesn't like links with a parenthesis character butting up against an underscore character):
https://tinyurl.com/yu9aan2d
No, apparently I can't quit. };-)
This looks like the owner/operator of that horse-drawn rolling store, based on the burial location and life span, cross-referenced against the history of the Estrella Mennonite church:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33173664/kenneth-lee-snyder
keramikos.....Thank you so much for all the information that you took the time to put together! You are INCREDIBLE! I will share with dad sunday. Here is what I know,I would not want to be wanted by the law and they put you on my case to track me down:) You are AMAZING!
keramikos....I shared with my dad this morning all of the incredible finds you posted yesterday. He enjoyed them very much and this brought on a couple more recollections. We talked about the big sacks of flour and he said his mother made dresses and underwear out of the flour sack material. He also told me that his aunt would take prince Albert cans and cut them and make hair rollers to do her hair. In those days there was a lot of Love and the other things they needed were created out of ordinary neccessities.
Cokeman1959, I'm glad your father enjoyed them. :-)
Oh yes, repurposed flour sacks. That's a very tall subject, and the Internet is full of references. Here is only one of many:
https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-digital-exhibition/index.php/for-a-few-sacks-more/item/117-introduction
Prince Albert cans cut up and used as hair rollers:
*snip*
“Now when we got big-sized,” Mamie continued, “we would take a Prince Albert can, get the bottom off it and the top, and spread it out. Cut them things with the scissors and wrap them in some brown paper. And take your hair and put it in there, roll them up, and you’d be walking around with a head of tin cans.” I laughed silently, and she went on to explain: “And that morning, you’d take them out and comb them.
“So what was the brown paper for?” I asked.
“To wrap ’em up,” she replied, “wrap the tin up. The little strip what you cut off the tobacco can, you had to put it in the paper and wrap it up like you rolling a cigarette.
*snip*
https://www.southerncultures.org/article/makeshifting/
Last, but not necessarily least, I spy a Singer Featherweight in a picture on the bottom left side of page 21 of the October 1948 issue of the Dutch magazine Libelle. };-)
The tip offs are the Singer "S" on the motor, the diminutive size, and that flat space on top for thread spools.
Here's a Worthpoint listing for a Featherweight with a good picture of the backside:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-singer-featherweight-221-1945-1896229281
In 1948, the Singer Featherweight was already a well-established model. It actually first came out in 1933:
https://singer-featherweight.com/blogs/schoolhouse/timeline-history-of-the-singer-featherweight
Singer did have a factory in the Netherlands in Nijmegen, but this story, titled "ZAKLOPEN OP Z'N AMERIKAANS" (American style sack racing) features a young American woman named Sally in the USA.
I was born in 40 and only remember the Ice man, the Milk man, the Vandicamps Bakery man, the ice cream truck, driving thru our neighborhoods. We were dirt poor and I could never buy the treats, but we did buy the milk and ice for our ice box till we could afford a fridge.