1937 General Store Still OPEN for Business: Come Along with me and have a LOOK!
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- 1937 NEW RIVER General Store Still OPEN for Business: Come Along with me and have a look! William Lewis Coker, stated working in 1900 at the age of 5 when his father passed. The 5 year old Coker was a water boy in the mines to help support his family. After getting married he moved to Charlie’s Branch in Anderson Country Tennessee where he built and opened the New River General Store in October of 1937. The brick building is two-story, has a basement and living quarters upstairs. The store has been operated for the past 40 years by Scotty Phillips the grandson of Coker. Come along with me and hear the story of Coker and the New River General store.
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It’s a 73 nova. That’s where I was raised. My parents still live right there. That is daddy’s nova actually. Thank for this video
Wow! How cool I bet you eventually moved to North Carolina like I did lol. I grew up in Catawba county eventually moved to Burke county in Morganton
I thought that bridge looked familiar Brittany... Your daddy interesting in selling the nova?
Does he want to sell it?
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i bet u have a ton of story's & area pics,. of the area all over the place there......... what yr,. did u move out & away from charly's branch east tenn,......?? & why??? if i may ask..... guessing cus of better paying job's or etc,.....??? well u ever consider buying or leasing or investing into the general store to keep it all going..........??? CUS once scotty's passes away it's all over w/ for the local ppl,. esp,. those running a tab inside the general store !!!!! we all heard ' ol scotty say he is 20 miles ( 1 way ) or more from a way bigger city & real stores to buy the basic's to live & survive......... GOD BLESS 'Y'ALL EITHER WAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
" Just put it on the tab, Scotty" 💕 Not enough people in this world that cares like that anymore.
Being a native Virginian I grew up on mom and pop stores that unfortunately don't exist anymore but theres still a couple still going strong, Seeing this old country store in Tennessee is truly heartwarming. Thank you.
Have ridden by this store many, many times. I'll have to stop and buy a coke next time. When I was young our local store ran a tab. We partly paid with eggs.
When I was young, we often stayed with our mother's parents during the summer as our mother worked as a nurse for a local doctor. Grandma would sometimes take us to the grocery store she patronized. It was a small, wooden store with the owner the only employee, as far as I know. He ran a tab for a few of his regulars, Grandma being one of them.
Thank you for watching my video and making a comment about the New River General Store. John
I sure love hearing locals tell their own story.
It a good feeling seeing small businesses still exist in this fast pace mixed up world.
You won’t like the high prices they charge you
Small business is what keeps many towns afloat, invest in small business in your community, they're important!
@@adspurthat seems to be anywhere I go.... High prices.
Great respect for hardworking American ethics and raising a family on top…even during hard times…still going since 1937 😲😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍🇺🇸
Places like this are treasures!! I am a historian and this is how history is recorded . Amazing video Thank You!!!
I imagine there are a lot of “backroad small towns” throughout America that still lives in past era’s as this town is . What a great history of a family from the past world still operating in this world . Gotta love it !!
Thanks for watching and your nice comment
I love to take trips on the back roads, to visit these treasures.🥰
Absolutely! My family is from one of these small towns, Louisa, KY and Fort Gay, WV. They border each other. Its the only place in my life that has changed very little since I was a young kid, I'm now 46. I live in Columbus, OH so I love visiting there. Its so stress free and peaceful.
Born 100 years to late people were pure and respectful and took no shit God bless 🙏 ❤️ America
Thank you for watching my video and making a comment about the New River General Store. John
I grew up poor, quit high school in the 9th grade and went to work. I worked before that with a shoe shine kit and 2 paper routes. This was just more work which obviously replaced the shoe shine kit and paper route. I', 65 now and my life has been anything but poor as an adult. when you grow up poor and don't like being poor it motivates you.
Amen to that. I grew up in Indiana in the 60s and 70s. My Dad would treat us once a month with McDonald's cheap 13cent hamburger. My Moms people were in Breathitt county,ky.Ate alot of peanut butter and jelly,and oatmeal and fried taters and beans and boiled cabbage. People today don't know those days I guess. Thanks for the video,good luck with the store. And yes I know those swinging bridges.
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This video made my day, seeing decent people still out there these days!
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Can we appreciate that massive pot belly stove. I love those things but mine are all much much smaller.
Awesome video! Love Appalachian people and the music!
In my lifetime I have seen the demise of Mom and Pop stores that have been replaced by a monotony of chain stores that are replicated in every city and town in America--lacking in uniqueness, character and personal feel. It is sad. As kids we would hang out at the local Mom and Pop stores and were welcome to do so. It was warm and welcoming and a place for neighbors to aggregate with chairs out front to sit on and chat. Sad this way of life has passed.
Why can’t the world be as wholesome and polite as the Appalachian folks!?!
It would certainly be a much more peaceful world 🌎 ❤️🙏
I know
@@badassbeaver7986 thank you for that compliment. Yup, don't mess with our politics!! LOL
What are y'all kids any body can be nice.
He doing a video of course there be nice
@Badass Beaver USA first!!!! Take of our citizens. White lives matter.
@@joy7218most people around here are nice. If they didnt wanna be nice when he had the camera on they wouldn't have been. Weak two-faced people will be nice just because a camera is on them.
I can tell by looking around that this man loves this country. I feel like I could walk in there and we'd be like old friends
It’s refreshing to see and hear that a little slice of Americana is still alive and well. A slower pace for sure, it’s a area and a time frame I’d love to live in. I wish all these people the very best, stay healthy and happy.
At least there is still a part of the real America that is still alive and thriving ( not existing ) but thriving. I could imagine and love the life these real people live. Please everybody, keep it real and don’t let the vile standards of today ruin your “ Slice Of Heaven “
Please bring that world back
Much respect for Scott. People like this man and that lovely lady make up the heart and soul of our country. ❤
What a treasure this business is! Places like these should be protected at all costs!
I love how old school this place is! It's so simple and I love it! I would love to move there and live the rest of my life there.
I myself grew up in a store similar to this. My Grandmother owned a general store for a lil over 40 years & she too had tickets on people. She also took the water bill payments for the community we lived in. I loved stamping both sides of those bills and tearing them apart and giving the customer their part. I absolutely loved working there. It was built out of cinder blocks and concrete and had a concrete floor. I thought it was the grandest thing!
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That’s really awesome memories 👏
My grandparents had a store in a small town also. My favorite part was the candy case of course.
My parent's owned the Williams General Store in Williams Oregon from 1981 to 1997.
It was first open for business in 1897 and it is still open !!
And it even had a potbelly stove in it when mom and dad had it. :)
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Tennessee boy here! I was born and bred in Crossville, TN. Joined the Air Force in 1997 and got out in 2010 left the service with a beautiful Samoan wife and we have two beautiful grown kids. Came back home here to TN in 2013. I thank the Lord for blessing me to be born in TN. Still a wonderful place to live. I have been all over the world and there is nothing like the hills of TN! My nanny and pa owned an old store like this and I remember coming down there to get an ice cold Nehi Peach or a Hawaiian punch in the little skinny cans! Boy those were some good ole days! God bless you all and have a very Merry Christmas!!! Awesome video sir!
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Thank you for sharing !
Never been to TN, but I'm a big wrasslin' fan and Smoky Mountain Wrestling down in Knoxville was in its heyday when I was a kid, even though I grew up in the UK. I sometimes listen to the Ritter Farms Ministry (Ptr Jack and Sis. Nancy Ritter) based out of Grainger Country. It's very sound in the Gospel and got some good Gospel and Bluegrass music .Jesus bless ya !
Came buy this place while going to my uncle Jim Hudgens funeral in Crossville where all my cousins live. Me and my bro,s traveled from Mansfield, ohio and decided to take a scenic route instead of going on rt 40 to Crossville and I must say it's one the most awesome and beautiful places in Tennessee to travel. That was 15yrs ago and we still talk about that trip .
I grew up in Appalachia, West Virginia, I remember RC cola and swinging bridges very well. My Grandfather came to America from Romania where his father was a wealthy banker... He had 11 brothers and sisters and started working in the coal mines at the age of 12 to help support his family. Eventually he became a very successful business man and a politician. His best friend was Robert C Byrd. ❤️ Enjoy your videos very much!! Brings back such memories for me. Thank you!!
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The senator Robert Byrd?
@@blnunya6689 I would say Yes.
@@blnunya6689 Yes. Senator Byrd. He was such an amazing person!! I'm blessed to have had him in my childhood! ❤️
This was such a wonderful video. Such fun watching. So sad to hear of the vandalism. Terrible. Hope his store and gas pumps stay safe.
Omggggg !
Royal Crown Cola & Moon Pies ! YUM ! !
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My mom was born in New River, she was raised by her grandparents, her grandfather worked the mines also. I remember being little and visiting Brushy Mtn Prison, that was back in the day when you could sit in the cafeteria at the tables with the prisoners and the prisoners made all the matchstick items.
Wow that’s cool. Thank you for sharing your memories with us. Thanks for watching
It's great you're preserving the history of this little store and the places around it... there's still plenty of these mom and pop places around....
Had a little general store like that up here in Michigan. The owner was from down south and it was a neat place. Locals all came in and would sit and eat the daily lunch together at simple kitchen tables. If you didn’t know who you was sitting across from you did by the time you left. Many of the worlds problems were solved by the simple people sitting around those kitchen tables eating lunch.
Yes and it is not the same today. Technology has made its way to the table, but not in my house. I like the way families and friends got together like we use to, without cell phones and just good ole family time and conversation
' OL COUNTY PROBLEM'S WERE SOLVED BY COUNTY GOOD FOLK'S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! & NOT OVER CHARGED EVERY ONE CUS THEY R GREEDY IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER. !!!!!!!!!
I grew up in s.w NY and we always had dinner every night to catch up on what our day was like. Didn't think about it at the time, but I did it with my girls -- they both told me I was the only one who still did that! Feed a lot of my kids friends!
I'm from MI, where is that place. I might want to visit!
So refreshing to see that there are still places like this and such genuinely good people, great video!
I ABSOLUTELY love all these stories and videos you post. There’s something about Appalachian country that stirs my soul. Such beautiful countryside and great history. Thank you so much for sharing all this with us, much appreciated. Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪
Glad you like them!
40 years in the same store
Try the Appalachian Storyteller, he's good too. I watch all I can find. Since settlers were Irish and Scottish you will recognize some of the ways and traditions he explores. It's like going back in time to my childhood listening to these people talk. I sound the same now but I lost some with all the speech classes that employer made me take
I agree. Fascinating. I haven't had a TV in years. Why bother when you can get content like this
@@theappalachianchannel Just found your channel, great content, new subscriber here 👍🏻
Scotty and his family are a major part of the "Backbone of America!"
Thanks for sharing this amazing story.
That was a great interview.
Blessings from Georgia 🙏
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Thank you so much and blessings to you too over and Georgia
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Merry Christmas 🎄☃️🎄
Grew up in Oregon in the 50-60s and spent my summers working in the fields and orchards at 10-15 years old.
So it wasn't to different although the coal mines must of been tough. I agree kids today have no idea...
What a genuinely nice guy with a good work ethic and sense of community. Love this.
Thank you for making and posting this video. I am a history buff and I find the 1920s and 1930s to be interesting times for America. This video is a "gold mine" find!
Glad you enjoyed it
I love this. Always think I was born in the wrong generation. I would have loved to experience all of this little town back in the day and really hope we can get away from big corporations and get back to this way of life.
You don’t have to shop at big corporations now if you don’t want to. No one is stopping you. Your quality of life would change drastically, but if that’s what you want, you won’t miss it, right? Personally, I’d take the longer life expectancy, the tremendous advances in medical and healthcare technology, and the chance at getting a good education that comes with living in the current era, which is without a doubt, the best time to be alive so far. And of course, I’m grateful to not be lynched. I’m grateful that my white father wasn’t harassed, threatened or arrested for marrying my Jamaican mother, I’m grateful that I’m not experiencing the same for marrying my white husband. I’m grateful that I’m allowed to vote, own property, and have my own bank account as a woman. You couldn’t pay me enough to go back even if it was possible.
I suppose some people have more to lose than others when playing the “remember when” game.
@@dewilew2137 WOW
@@dewilew2137 I cannot formulate an argument right now, so I'm just gonna say fuсk you.
@dewilew2137 I completely understand what you are saying. It's all in which angle or prism it's seen through. In today's world, more children are born out of wedlock. Divorce or single parenting is a real thing. Drugs have ravaged cities and small towns. Black youth are more likely to be killed by their peers than anyone else. Obesity and general un healthy lifestyles are more prevalent due to technological ( although technology used properly is a good thing). I think every generation has its own cross to bear and its the good in every life that people are attracted to.
@@dewilew2137 What I do not like about your response here is this: a lack of respect. Oh, you have your own bank. I am not impressed. Perhaps the reason your white father wasn't harassed, threatened, or arrested for marrying your Jamaican mother is due to the fact that they, and you are buying into a facade. You know nothing about the banking industry.
Was raised on New River with Scotty. His sister Betty Davis was out Principle at Rosedale. She was The Best Ever. Great Family
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It sure would be nice to see the original building get at least some form of restoration. Enough to keep it from completely falling apart. It adds a nice touch of history to the place. We've lost so much already.
Noted!
Thank you sir for allowing us to come into your shop & learning about the old days; I love American history, and all the very interesting stories told! From your neighbour North, 🇨🇦
Glad you enjoyed it
I’d sure like to see the Appalachians. Always been fascinated. Wanted to see Loretta & Cash’s stomp’n grounds too. One of these days I’ll say to heck with all this nonsense, jump on the bike & ride south.
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@@theappalachianchannel😅😅😅like the store 2:06
Simply beautiful. All by itself. Time almost doesn't need to touch it. Perfect 20th century life.
We had a general store just around the corner in Chicago 70 years ago. As kids we would love it when our mom stopped in to buy a little something, especially at holiday time. So many intriguing odds and ends, it really got our imaginations going. Wish it was still there.
Yeah so do I thank you for sharing your memories. Also thank you for watching my channel stay tuned
Seeing these old buildings is awesome but adding the history of several generations of a founding family is over the top! Loved it.
What a lovely man Scotty is heart n soul of the community I'd say like his daddy was
My Greatgrandparents settled in this very area for awhile as a circuit preacher then moved to south west Tennessee to Henderson county. I appreciate these stories of our past and love seeing people still carrying on. Thank you for the great stories..❤
Thanks for sharing!
To have a tab this days is amazing and trustworthy. Just to hand a person merchandise and have their word to pay later says alot. These days it's truly hard to trust. But hey he knows whats up. Great guy right here.
I'm not from this area but I remember an old fashioned grocery store where the owner would write down our purchases on a brown paper bag and do the adding by hand with a pencil. As kids mom would tell us to buy groceries "on credit". This was common among people I knew.
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This is a fascinating place. Thank you for the detailed and very interesting history of the store and gas station. It brings back memories of a time in America when we looked out for each other. Unfortunately, those days are long gone in a lot of places. I’ll be sure to stop in and see Scotty and support his business if I’m ever in that area.
Thanks for the comment. Please stop by. Here’s the address
New River General Store
6441 New River Hwy, Briceville, TN 37710
Moon Pie with an RC. A Southern delicacy. If you’ve never had it you need to try it.
Just stumbled across this channel , absolutely love it it's so refreshing to see things like this and not all the BS trash they try and Ram down your throat
Nice to see a small business do this still. My family owns a small grocery store and we still run credit too.
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I grew up in Florida and seen Florida change so much . I decided to leave and move to Elizabethton Tennessee . All of this is like stepping back in time the people are friendly the scenery is beautiful. I just hope all the people moving to these areas don't run it like they did in Florida. Love your channel
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They are trying to change us Tennessee folk.
Florida went to the
Fla. native here, I agree completely!!! The Villagers are colonizing central Florida and it breaks my heart.
Yep! I left Florida moved to the Ozarks I miss surfing and spearfishing but the beach and the traffic taken over by way too many people Florida like I knew in the 70s is long gone.
What a nice man Scotty is. So nice to see that people can still buy something on tick as they say. I loved the story about his Dad/Grandad built the little place with a stove to keep the kids warm while waiting for the bus. Amazing. You just don’t get that anymore. I love these old stores and service stations. Great oral history and so important to be documented thank you.
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This is wonderful Americana
Always fun hearing about all these places and people!!!
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I've never been to Appalachia but I swear I belong there. It feels like home for me and I'd love to visit and perhaps even move there
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I can picture my grandparents growing up in Arkansas & Oklahoma under similar circumstances. I so appreciate Scottie holding on, he is the hub, he provides a vital service. Also, thank you for filming. I wished we could have peaked into the old blue and white building, I think it could have been interesting. Doesn’t matter, the legacy lives on!
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Thank you. I miss the good old days. Love these old stories.
This has got to be someplace in my bloodline, I feel every time I watch your videos is like a step back in time.. I can see it as a lively place to live, it may have been a simple life but not an easy one.. I will be down there hopefully when Spring comes a long and take me a look at the most pleasing of places and folks like you and those that grew up there.. 🤗 from Wisconsin 😊 keep smiling and blessing to everyone..
Wow, thank you
These small stores that people are keeping going all these yrs are awesome. Keep the videos coming
Will do!
I didnt know there was a store there and all the history is so amazing. Then see 2 school buses they run is so awesome. So proud of Mr. Scotty Phillips for keeping up the family tradition.
Live and grew up in Southern West Virginia, my grandma Pearl said theys always room for 1 more, we’ll build you pallet in the floor, that was a quilt on the floor with a pillow and blanket. They was always plenty food, usually a big pot of brown beans and corn bread, she made something we called mush for breakfast, kinda looked like oatmeal and her theory was you eat or wait till the next meal, you’ll eventually eat. Going to the store was a real treat, getting a Cherry Slushy or a push up ice cream, a pop was extra special and you always had to share with the other Young’ns. We got channel 6 on the TV and if the weather was right, you might be able to get PBS on the black and white cabinet tv. About 20 years ago got to go to Pittsburg Pennsylvania and I was shocked how nobody said hello to anybody else, they didn’t seem to care about each other a lick, I didn’t care much for that and was glad to get back home. Those big city folks had everything and nothing at the same time, thought it was awful sad.
Some good memories there. Thanks for watching
My mom would make mush for my dad for many years, for breakfast. He loved it.
Orange sherbert pushups were the best, in those cardboard tubes.
@@sharoncrawford7192 I haven’t had it since I was a lil feller, but best I could remember sure liked it!
@@starababa1985 they were so good, eat em in the back of granddaddybob’s old Ford pickup, got about as much on you as in you😀
Great story John. Stumbled across it, and very glad I did. It makes my heart swell to know of great folks like Scotty, and hear thier stories. I'm more proud of our nation after watching his story and the historical account he gave about the store. This Country is rich with people like him. Thanks again. Byron.
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These are the kind of stores Walmart put out of business all over America.
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I'm so glad to see that there are people taking care to preserve American history . it's short compared to European history but very important nonetheless . Fascinating
to watch , thank you from the UK 🇬🇧
The world needs more such people
Great video, I grew up in a small farm town in N.C & this brought back some good memories, we had a store that gave credit to people, even I had store credit at 12 years old. It seems like back then everyone tried to help one another "now it's all about what you can do for me" I can relate to some of the stuff he was saying as my daddy died when I was 3 & there was 7 of us, 4 boys 3 girls. I didn't go to work at that young age but I was in the fields by 7 years old, not so much helping out the family my mom just believed in us working for what we got.
I grew up in a small town but it has turned into a city. It's nice to see this town is still holding on.
We had a store like this in the northern part of Granville County,N.C.It had been in operation over 100 years, the last 60 years by the same family. On the 11th of December 2019 someone torched the store and our crossroads community has forever been changed.
I am so sorry
This rocks! There was a general store call Sapienza’s market in Harmony, PA up until the early 2000’s. After several changing of hands, it’s now a finance office, but it’s still the same structure.
Thanks for sharing this!
I live in Saltville Virginia and these are my kind of people. Call us what you want. It’s not your fault your parents didn’t raise you right. 🇺🇸
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I'm the baby of 14 kids, im 49 but I remember alot of lil stores like this...my dad preached in every holler you could imagine..best people in the world...
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Memories are GREAT
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Great video. I would have loved to have been able to see the inside of the smaller store.
Thanks for this! My great uncle and great great uncle ran a general store with a post office in WV for decades. Brought back a lot of memories of their place.
It' so good to see the old mom n pops stores around
Yes that’s what I’m trying to do bring back the past day and old times that remember. I love history about our surrounding towns
Even though parts of Appalachia looks run down its still the most beautiful part of the country.
Hi from Michigan, Such nice people down south, thanks for sharing the story.
Yes there are not many of those left. In B.C. Canada there was a old log General store with a crippled old man running it. He and his old man used to push cattle up the coast from Bella Coola to the gold rush fields. I would buy old black powder cartridges from him.
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I just remembered his favorite saying when asked how you doing? "Not stirring up much dust today"
very cool swing bridge
Thanks
There is a grocer in Wellston Ohio called Newmans that has been operating since 1929
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thank you for the memories
You’re welcome
Just discovered your channel tonight(nighttime here somewhere in a small city of M,Tokyo Japan).
And the tittle of caught my attention,love to see people are still loving their cities than watching the abandoned houses it makes me real sad. Here in your channel it gives positivity.
I love this 🥰…come back to the past is very awesome, the little blue house (gas station) It would be wonderful restored it exactly as was 🙏🏻🥰👍
Our local store still takes a tab. When my grandmother died she was adamant about paying the store then buying Christmas gifts. She died December 10th. She couldn't get out so she had to send someone. She knew it was the last so she wanted it paid full.
I used to hear the same thing for my grandparents, a moon pie, and an RC
Love the little 'swinging bridge'. The river looks more like a brook. Lol
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Great video, I do hope you take through the store and the living area upstairs too. Keep these coming, I do remember those times when places like this were part of our lives.
Takes me back to being a kid you can't beat these country folks they the best
Nice Video, that was the good ole days, TY for your great work !
I grew up in a small town with an IGA, a gas station that also rented movies and a service station that also sold kerosene in western Ky. I now travel the US looking for these rural towns. While most of these little stores are long gone, every now and then I will run across a gem like this. Makes me long for the good old days of yesteryear. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing all your hard work. You're getting the story's and video's before these places are gone forever. The old JR Daugherty Furniture building in Clinton was built around the same time. All the stone on the outside was hauled from new river and hand chiseled on site.
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I remember going to a corner store much like this when I was 10 years old. It was in Texas. It was run by a elderly woman. It has warm memories. No doubt she's long gone lord rest her soul. ❤
American history... priceless 😲
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youtube algorithm sure does wonders as this was offered and very glad i watched this. What a simple and humble lifestyle and kudos to Scottie for being chill. Thanks for the interview.
Great content !
Thank you for watching my video and making a comment about the New River General Store. John
Wow..what a backstory to tell! Awesome! I remember the Mom & Pop stores in small town I was born in…loved to go get penny candy…drink,whatever…miss those places…it was safe too… kids could go anywhere back then… I’d give all this tech up in a second to go back! ❤❤❤😂😂😂
hats how it was when i was a kid small town a few shops couple a tire shops its still a small town but alot more built up now my dad used to bail hay down the road over 100 acres or so used to be a cow farm now they sold all the land and built homes and the huge cow barn they turned into apartments thats how big the barn was i love hearing older generation tell teir stories im 58 now so i grew up in the same era 60s 70s as this gentleman much respect for you sir and thank you for your stories
Lots of great information about Scotty's ancestors and that area. At 13:30, you're talking with that lady shopper about RC colas "of which there are plenty on the shelf," and MoonPies. Well, there are plenty of MoonPies on the top shelf of that section, in throw-back packaging. Same product that we first made in 1917, "after traveling salesman Earl Mitchell attempted to answer the hungry pleas of local miners."
Wow thanks for watching. I love Moon pies and RC Cola
My grandfather had a store similar to this for 40 years. It was a health food and vitamin store and it was the last of the "mom and pop" type stores of its kinda in the middle TN area. They widened the road a few years ago and the store was demolished. My grandfather passed away 2 years ago and when that store went, is when he started to really decline. It was called Len Rossi Health Foods. It was a true gem and he made so many friends through that store. I miss it and him dearly. Len Rossi was one of a kind! He was also a famous pro wrestler from the 60's to 70's.
He was kinda of a big deal in wrestling
i worked at a small mom and pop supplement store in columbus, ohio theres nothing better than helping out these small businesses.
That's something else, I used to deliver groceries and everything else for two years to that very store.
I remember his mom, she was a great lady and very funny.
Hate to hear that she passed away.
NICE STORY THANK YOU!!
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