Was there a "General Store" in your town ...?

Question

growing up where you/your parents did all your shopping that had "a little bit of everything?"

Answer 1

Yes and it belonged to my Granddad. I loved to hide under the counter and eavesdrop on people's conversations as they did their grocery shopping. It was not self-service. There was a long counter and the groceries were on shelves behind it. You told the grocer what you wanted and he got it for you. When he added the cost, he just wrote the prices down on the brown paper bag he would later use to bag your groceries.

Answer 2

There was one not far from the next town. It is an old stone building, built in the mid 1800s, and it sold everything for many years. With the introduction of malls and big specialty shops, they were no longer needed as a general store, so the owners tried their luck at running a smaller version of the store in the front. They used the back space for a tea room, serving afternoon cakes and tea, coffee, etc. But since it is in a rural setting, and since most people go to town anyway, the general store finally closed -- after 150 years of business. Sad, really. My grandmother lived just around the corner from it, on a gravel road, when she was a very young girl and she told stories about the store.

Answer 3

In between shopping at the A&P, my mom did her shopping at the corner store, called "Victor's." It was run by Victor & his two sons. They had a little bit of this & that. Bread was 25¢ a loaf, a pack of gum was 5¢ & a glass bottle of Coke was 10¢ The regular customers were extended a certain amount of credit & at the end of each month, the bill had to be paid. I can still hear the squeeking wooden floor as my sisters & I shopped for our mom. Another store about five blocks from our house was "George's" & mostly the school kids went there for candy, school supplies, etc. but he carried many itmes. George always had time to visit with his young customers as they browsed his tiny store.

Answer 4

Yes we did, Royal Blue, and other small shops too. We had the Ben Franklins dime store, a shoe store where they did sell Buster Brown shoes, a tavern, and a several gas stations, some with garages, and one bank. We also had 2 Dentist offices, and 2 regular Drs offices, one Dairy Queen, and 1 Photographer.

Answer 5

I live in an isolated part of northern Minnesota. While my town no longer has a general store, some of the other small towns (less than 300 people) do. Hardware, groceries, clothing, post office, all in one building. Wooden floors and pattern stamp tin panels on the cieling.

Answer 6

No but I love in Indiana so of course my mother thinks I live in a Hooterville type setting. She is from the East coast. One time when the kids were small and I was home visiting my daughter got into the cards on a stationary rack and was stacking them in the floor. As I was putting them back my mother asked "didn't we have Department Stores In Indiana." I said, "No Mom, we just have a little General Store. Later we were stopped at a light and an UPS truck pulled up beside us. Still nervous from my reaction to her first question she asked me. " Do you have UPS in Indiana?" I said, "No Mom !!! We have a little bitty Post Office in the corner of the General Store." She can be something else sometimes I tell you !!!!! *smile*

Answer 7

Nope-Grew up to SoCal Malls there as early as the 60's. In the early 70's I moved to a small town in AZ that did have a general store.

Answer 8

No, I grew up in a little farming community that, before I was born, had a little grocery, feed store & supplies, a post office and a church. They had all burned down except for the church.
The closest little store was three miles, I used to ride my horse there, in a little,little burg named Roston, or four miles the other direction in a smaller place called Slabtown.

Answer 9

Most answers point out that the Asker has a delusion that there are Muslim controlled towns in US or UK. So, sorry. There are no such towns. The Law clearly prohibits religion from usurping its administration. The Muslims are welcome to control their own people in the Mosques, especially in Pakistan, Iraq, and Iran, but they have no right to control the town, which is administered by SECULAR Government of the people, for the people and by the people. The world stands united on this, since it involves politics and secular states.

Answer 10

No, but we did have General Electric and the grocery carried General Mills. My older brother actually got a standby military flight from Hawaii to the mainland by registering as General Mills.