The Old Country Store How it was Then and Now

#appalachian #appalachianhistory #appalachia #donnielaws #countrylife Everybody remembers the old country store just down the road. Their still with, but not like they use to be. Here is a look back at it use to be in these rural areas across America and how it is now. Thanks for watching. NOTE: Picture are just to tell the story and not actual pictures of the events. SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL. THIS CHANNEL COVERS 9 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS ! All Videos are Copyrighted and used by permission only.

[@nancylee1625]

Thank you Brother Donnie for bringing us back to our past. I remember some of these stores back in the Virginia mountains and they are no more. The folks sitting around outside with a bottle of pop and a bag of peanuts. Wonderful memories.

[@donnielaws7020]

Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.

[@rebeccalynn7795]

i was just thinking about the peanuts in a coke.. nothing better when thinking of those days!!

[@nancylee1625]

❤@@rebeccalynn7795

[@alicevaughn7990]

The good old days people were kinder being a kid was fun. People were poor but appreciate what they had. Thank you for sharing your wonderful memories and stories.

[@donnielaws7020]

So true my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome. God bless you.

[@lavenabaxter6504]

I absolutely love these stories about the Apalancia! And loved the old country store when I was a kid. Those were the grand old days when a kid new how to be a kid. I remember taking pop bottles to the store and trading them for more pops. I always enjoy then these videos, thank you so much for sharing them. And God Bless You. ❤ Cleveland Tn.

[@ShowCat1]

Pop bottles, RC Colas, and moon pies. That really took me back. Thanks again, Donnie.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.

[@beverlyrobertson6796]

So right RC and moon pies.🤗

[@kaygalloway4315]

I grew up in a country store. My great grandparents started it in the early 1900’s and my folks bought it from them in the 1940’s. Miss those days. Things were so much simpler then.

[@donnielaws7020]

That's awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.

[@denisehibbs9576]

I remember an old country store . It was in the middle of nowhere. Had a big pot belly stove in the back with several wooden chairs in a circle.The older folks sat over there. The kids sat at the small soda fountain on the side. It was a unique community hangout. Thanks for sharing your memories with us !

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.

[@denveradams4909]

I grew up on farms in Southeastern Ohio. There were 3 country stores where we shopped frequently. These came in very handy to purchase essential items, when you didn't need to drive 20 miles to the nearest large grocery store. These stores tried to stock a little of everything. From groceries, hardware, snacks and even stoves & heaters. These stores would often carry a family on a credit ticket when you needed something between paydays. Miller's General Store had a pool table in the back room. There was a local cola, bottled in Marietta, Ohio, that had a bottle cap program, similar to green stamps. My brother and I would save Double Cola bottle caps to buy things from a catalog. I remember that we purchased hunting knives, pocket knives and even an electric can opener for our mother. Miller's General Store had a pop machine with Double Cola and a bottle opener. The store owner would even save the bottle caps from that machine so that we could purchase items from the catalog. We had a very large family of 13 and didn't have much money. The owner knew that and helped us out in this way.

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW Thanks for sharing your memories with us my friend. God bless you. Thank you.

[@hermitbob7304]

Grew up in Jackson, OH. We had a Gem bottling plant nearby that produced Double Cola and Ski pop

[@Jane-West]

We didn't even know how good we had it, even though times could be tough...

[@berniem.6173]

Precious memories of my childhood. My Grandfather owned a small country store in this area. He lived to be 99 & worked in the store the day before he passed. I was a collector of pop bottles, would ride my bicycle a mile or two up & down the road to collect the bottles & trade them in for an ice cream bar & my favorite Frosty Root beer. I did a lot of different jobs at that little country store & even make mud pies on the back porch after I sorted pop bottles.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing them times. God bless you.

[@CaroleLeamer735]

Thank you so much for sharing this Mr Donnie ❤ I can remember the old country stores. They had a little bit of everything. Always lots of candy. It's sad that the younger generations missed out on it. I wouldn't trade my childhood for all the technology in the world ❤ God bless you ❤

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thank you for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.

[@Jane-West]

What you said Ms. Carole!❤❤❤

[@tucky2297]

In Kentucky we had penny candy and the sales person asked WOULD YOU LIKE A POKE? That's what a sack or paper bag was called !😂

[@ninjasipad7924]

Sure do miss these old mom and pop stores where everyone knew their neighbors and really wish they’d still have Sunday blue laws. Back in the day a handshake and trust was worth more than a dollar, something to be said for that. It was such a treat to have some pop bottles to take back and get some penny candy…so different than life is now and sure do miss it. Thanks for a trip down memory lane to start my day❤

[@donnielaws7020]

Thank you friend for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.

[@Ira88881]

He mentioned about going there on a Sunday. It could be an error in the narration, but were some of these stores open Sunday, despite any blue laws? With people’s work schedules and kids’ school schedules, it would seem that Sunday would be the only day of the week when everyone had the time to go.

[@donnielaws7020]

True my friend, but a lot were open.

[@ninjasipad7924]

@@Ira88881 you’re probably right.

[@JaredKingTV]

I miss them day's. I remember the old flat top coolers with aluminum sliding doors on top with the glass bottle drinks inside. Thanks for another MIGHTY GOOD'N my awesome mountain brother! God bless you Donnie

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my brother. Thanks for your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome.

[@oldman4595]

Thank you, Donnie, for bringing a little peace into the storm.

[@donnielaws7020]

Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.

[@lovescoffee9780]

I miss the old gas stations/store. The old gas pumps with the glass bubble top. Thank you Donnie for the trip down memory lane.

[@donnielaws7020]

Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.

[@Houndini]

Glass bubble on them Gas Stations was so you could see you was getting good clean gas for the costumers.

[@williamainsworth2256]

Loved the old country stores. They had a charm that corporate grocery stores just couldn’t match.

[@donnielaws7020]

That's so true my friend. Thanks for sharing this.

[@brianbloom1799]

Back in the early 70"s there was a little gas station/ store. Own by this little old man Walt Rottenburg, That store was right in the middle of all new homes, that store was open till he died in 1985, My dad said it open in the 1920's, That old man helped a lot of people in hard times. sad to these old Places just disappear, Thanks so much Donnie for all the Great Memories,and God bless

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.

[@dormiacrouch1905]

Thanks Donnie for the precious memories!❤ Prayers for your wife and you. Please take care and stay warm and safe!! Be careful outside in snow!!!

[@donnielaws7020]

Thank you friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.

[@Necron-ez2cc]

Once again, thank you Mister Donnie. Down here in the Canebreak the counties were dotted with small country stores and produce stands. My grandfather used to have one on the edge of the road bordering our dairy farm. He opened up after World War II as a way to supplement the farm income, but he always sad the main reason was because most people were poor and he could sell or trade with neighbors cheaper than the town stores that gouged customers.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. God bless him. Thanks for sharing this. We need more like him. God bless you.

[@Jane-West]

You come from good stock! ❤❤❤

[@Necron-ez2cc]

@@Jane-West You flatter me! We were just hard working farmers that tried to look after our rural community.

[@Nonniemaye]

Thank you, Donnie, for sharing another wonderful memory from your childhood. My husband's grandparents had a little store, much like the ones you showed on this video. My husband and I enjoy all your videos . Many thanks for all of your stories and videos. God bless you and yours.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome. God bless you.

[@jameslandstoffer3205]

Those stores were on many corners in the cities too. I was 3 years old in 1946. I wanted a popcicle but mom said no. Pop was a house painter and just got paid. I had seen mom put money in her purse so I took the cash and headed down the alley to get my popcicle. She caught me at the neighborhood store with $80 in my hand. She said you could buy the store for $80. Never got my popcicle but I did get a butt warming. Thanks for the memories Donnie.

[@donnielaws7020]

So true my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.

[@dormiacrouch1905]

Even our old "Mom and Pop" stores in town have disappeared. Sure do miss em!! I even remember those ol travelin stores on wheels that used to come out in the country!! Those were the "good ol days"!!!

[@donnielaws7020]

It's so sad my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.

[@randlerichardson5826]

The one at 1:41 looks exactly like the one I got my first memories of walking in to. It was called Taylor’s Crossroads Store. I just barely remember it but I remember the toy shelves the most. I wouldn’t trade them memories for no amount of money. It’s gone now and a house settin where it stood.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.

[@karentrimmer]

It's strange how our minds react to memories, both good and bad. My grandparents owned a mom & pop grocery. When I was little, my job was to collect the pop bottles people brought in, sort and crate them by company for pick-up. One day I went to grab a bottle and my thumb slide down a broken bottle, cut to the bone, 6 stitches. Every time I break a glass after that, my first reaction, without thinking, is to grab my thumb. 60 years later, I realize I've been grabbing my thumb just watching this video!

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.

[@TheWabbit]

Appreciate you sharing an experience that kids these days will never have, its a shame, almost everyone I ran into as a kid/teenager was a great experience with a grumpy ole man and a sweet as your grandmother lady handling the customers. Sometimes with your parents permission and if you were nice enough you might get a piece of butterscotch or peppermint given to you. Have a great day and God bless!

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.

[@OldWaysGardeningandPrepping]

Thank You Mr. Donnie for another great video. It's always good to see our history being kept alive cause they are trying their best to erase it as fast as possible. Was raised in the city and we also collected the bottles and traded them in. My Grandmother always kept her big coke bottles to trade in for more. If course we got better prices taking them to the Coke bottling company. Miss those Cokes in the glass bottles. Take care and have a blessed day. ❤️🍀 Blessings, Teresa 🦉

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome.

[@lorih9182]

I love hearing your stories, Donnie. We had the little general stores in the rural areas. Drove past them many times, maybe stop in one. We had a Tom Boy store where I lived. We'd ride our bikes up to Tom Boy, gathering soda bottles as we went and get enough for some candy at 5 cents per bottle. Good times. I miss those days. It made me smile ear to ear watching this.

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.

[@Jane-West]

Yes, 5 cents was the going rate in my day also. We are probably close to the same age😂😂😂

[@Tamara-bl5kb]

Thank you for reminding us of our past. Those old country stores served a purpose long forgotten. They were not only a place of commerce but of great social exchange. Now our culture spreads information on Facebook and other social media. A sad loss.

[@donnielaws7020]

Your very welcome my friend. I understand that all to well. God bless you.

[@Tamara-bl5kb]

And God Bless you, Donnie. I so enjoy your posts!@@donnielaws7020

[@Allastrology]

Thank you Mr Donnie!! Love going down memory lane and learning how life was. Its a real pleasure to hear it from someone who lived it instead of reading about it. Your channel has taught me so much. Would you believe, Ive never had a Moon Pie, lol! THANK YOU. Hope you and the wifey are feeling better. Keeping you both in my prayers. Stay warm🙏🏾😇🙏🏾

[@donnielaws7020]

Thank you so much my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.

[@Jane-West]

You need to get you a Moon Pie sir!!❤❤❤

[@debroahisaacs2452]

One of my most fondest memories. Going to the old country stores. Wood floors with sawdust I would draw pictures in the sawdust. Wow what I could buy with just a few nickels and pennies. I hope these memories go with us to heaven.❤❤

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing.

[@eleanorbuck715]

Hi, Donnie, thank you for sharing your wonderful memories. I spent several years living with my grandmother in Philadelphia and there were many little corner grocery stores. I used to take my radio flyer to the local park and find loads of pop bottles. I would trade them in at the corner store and buy penny candy with my profits! What joy! Life seemed much simpler back then, but, we had a lot of fun; didn't we?

[@donnielaws7020]

That's for sure my friend. I miss them too. God bless you. Thanks for sharing your memories. Thanks for.

[@WhiskyForBeginners]

It's sad that it's just not possible to make a living running a country store anymore. It's just not the same going into a big chain grocery store. To this day I say that I *trade* at a store. It's what I grew up with, and I'm not going to let loose of it. Mr. Laws, I'm right glad you do these videos. I've never lived in the Appalachians, but I'm a Southern boy, and in so many ways what you tell us about your past is the same as how I growed up. ❤

[@bettyfeliciano7322]

Good morning Donnie! Oh yes! The country stores! I was always so excited to get to go with Daddy to the combination gas station/country store! Daddy would give me money for a pop or a milk & I was very contented! It was always “our secret from Mama! Thank you so much for sharing! Stay warm & be safe! Blessings always! ❤️✝️😊

[@donnielaws7020]

Good morning my friend. Awesome memories. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.

[@stevehenry9421]

Donnie, I remember the little two room store across the dug out driveway from their old house. It was built out over the drop off to Wilhite creek on English mountain. when grandpa Spurgeon passed. He was my grandma's dad and she grew up there from the late 1800's when it was built. They built a 2 room school for the kids from nearby hollers. Grandma and her sister taught. Locals used for a church on Sundays. After church they would take their families from around those holders in horse drawn wagon boards up to marbletop which was a flat area by the falls at the top of English Mountain. I guess it was kind of a community center 'cause Grandma told me people from all side of the mountain would join come up the trails in the booklets to meet there for picnics and fellowship Sunday afternoons. I asked her why they called it marble top and she said it had large flat rocks on the ground and the kids would gather and play marbles. In the summertime they would cool off in the waterfall next to it. So many stories she's told me about the history of that area of Device County. Your stories br.ing back those memories to my 67 year old heart. Thank you brother.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.

[@markpospichal1309]

Yes, loved the country stores growing up and as a young man in the 60s and 70s. The one at the end of our road I walked the two miles to many a time. Looking back, it was not real big but if they didn't have it, you probably didn't really need it. I also fondly remember going to visit my great aunt who lived in a small town when I was little. Her neighbor across the alley had a little neighborhood grocery in her house. My aunt would give my cousin a nickel and we would run to her house and buy a popsicle, we each got half, what a treat! I sure wish the world was still like it was then. Thanks for sharing your memoris with us...

[@gregoryj.m.8985]

Brings back memories of such simpler times Donnie.....so many of those little country stores always had such a wide array of goods to sell ...and some had a gas pump as well.... Thank you for the video Brother.

[@perijetton9275]

I have such wonderful memories of “the little store”! Thanks for the video and god bless you Mr. Donnie.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.

[@jimwinter3181]

Another great video! Thanks Donnie!! We had two stores near our farm. We would walk to them just to get a candy bar and maybe a cold drink. I still go to one in Ind. and love to walk on the old wooden floor! Thanks Donnie!! What memories!

[@donnielaws7020]

That's awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.

[@wayneclark8482]

Thank you brother Donnie for sharing these stories because it brings back so many memories of my past. Makes me sad because all our children today only know about big box stores and no community of fellowship and knowing our neighbors. Sending blessings ✝️

[@donnielaws7020]

Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.

[@browningbelgium2326]

Donnie, you always have a way of singing my tune. Bare foot, dirt roads, hanging wash on lines, walking to the store to get mama things she run out of. We lived so simple and I didn't know we were considered threadbare til later in life. But mama and daddy made sure we were fed and clothed. We had electricity to but that was about it to modern America for us but we had the things modern America lacked, too; parents that stayed together, church every Sunday rain or shine, chores everyday except Saturday afternoon, mama cooking chicken on Sundays after church, neighbors getting together and picking once or twice a month. Memories Donnie!! Thanks for keeping them alive.

[@benmoffitt7524]

My great grandparents used to own one of these little stores in the Blue Ridge mountains of southern Virginia. It sat empty for many years. I went back several years ago and it had been torn down. Such a shame to take down all of that history. Thanks for sharing this and helping to keep the memories!

[@snickersberet4792]

Lord have mercy Donnie... me and my two cousins, nomatter where they was living at the time, either in southeast Virginia or east TN, my uncle Joe moved back and forth, but we would just take off walking to the store and never had any money, we'd just pick up pop bottles along the road and sometimes it was a pack of sugar babies and sometimes it was the RC ( a lot cheaper than coke or Pepsi) and moon pies, jaw breakers it didn't matter just junk with flashy colors and it was ours. Now we was all born in the early 60s so we remember the thrill of the first two liter pop bottles! It was a rare find but it was like striking gold when you found one.. I think it was a nickel or maybe even a dime. Also I remember kids could buy cigarettes too. Not for themselves as much as for thier parents or grandparents. They'd give you the money to buy them a pack of cigarettes and let us keep the change. Good times good times. I sure miss my family, my country, my backroads. I've walked many of them.

[@donnielaws7020]

That's awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your precious memories. God bless you.

[@neeceeboo777]

I remember traveling all over Georgia with my granddaddy when I was a youngn and going to those ole country stores. There was always something good in them that you just couldn't find in the city. Bacon, smoked sausage,a barrel of cold pickles. Good memories and good people running them. Thank you for sharing this Mr Donnie. ❤

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome.

[@kymburriss4260]

When I was a child, my grandmother lived in a little town in Kansas. They had a little grocery store where my aunt worked, and a tiny variety store, and an old pool hall with benches out front. I used to walk the 2 blocks to "town" with my dad. He'd sit on those benches and talk to the men sitting out there. My dad had grown up there, so everyone knew him, and me because I was "Ellen's granddaughter " I always had such fun walking on those old floors, listening to the creaks and squeaks of the old wood, worn smooth and shiny by hundreds of shoes ove many years..... great memories. Thank you for sharing your memories, and stirring mine once again ❤️

[@mrs.g.9816]

I think the closest I've ever been to a general store is the old "mom & pop" store in my childhood town of Ossining, NY back in the early to mid 1960s. Mr. and Mrs. Palco, Hungarian immigrants, ran a store that sold groceries, magazines, newspapers and other things. The store was only two blocks from my house, so as a seven year old, I could be trusted to get down to the store to buy a sack of four Italian rolls with the dollar my mom gave me. I liked talking with Mrs. Palco, and she liked talking to me. They had a long glass-enclosed candy counter with jars full of penny candies. (You could get more than one candy for a penny back then.) I used to collect pop bottles, too! I'd bring them to Mr. and Mrs. Palco, and they'd pay me. I'd end up spending 10 cents of my money on a sack full of different penny candies I chose. Sadly, they they had to close the store just when I started high school.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories.

[@mrs.g.9816]

@@donnielaws7020 My memory isn't that good! Twenty five cents, even in the 1960s, would have only bought one roll. It was a dollar for four rolls. Oops!

[@waltersteffensthezr2man431]

Great video Donnie I actually remember feeling sad when I first started seeing self checkouts! The old world's just in a big rush all the time.

[@donnielaws7020]

Thank you friend. I don't care much for self checkouts nether. Thanks for sharing.

[@hermitbob7304]

I remember the old country store near Grandma's house in Southern Ohio back in the 70s. A mile long walk down the hill, getting 10 cent pop to share and Grandma gave us 10 cents to buy penny candy kept in those big glass jars at the counter. The old-time cash register, pot belly stove, high shelves stocked with all kinds of goods with one of those rolling ladders, and of course the creaky wood floors. Such wonderful memories.

[@donnielaws7020]

Thanks for sharing your memories with us my friend. God bless you.

[@dittohead7044]

I wonder if any of these old country stores have ever been contacted by American Pickers. They love old time memorabilia and would probably pay good money for the items. Surely that would help the families out. We picked up pop bottles too just to go to the penny candy stores. Hate to see the past lost. Glad you bring them back to life ❤

[@donnielaws7020]

Good question my friend. Thanks for sharing.

[@starjunkie5328]

Our local little store was called Herschtel's -Victor & Bernice Herschtel. They were Germam-Jewish Holocaust survivors from WWII. I remember being scared at the sight of the makeshift stilted numberd-tattoos on their wrists. I didn't understand why they had them until my dad explained it to me at five years old. It scared me even more then. But I knew that they were once prisoners forced to labor until death came to them...If they were lucky. If they weren't gassed to death. It changed my whole world view at that age, and I never looked at the Herschtel's the same ever again. My dad didn't believe in holding certain horrors back from children if it was educational. And boy, was it ever. But we collected bottles every Saturday and Sunday and got a nickel for each. I wish I could do it now, just for the memory of it. My dad was one of the first engineers at OI Glass, out of Toledo, Ohio to develop the twist off pop-top bottle, ruining many kids' weekends. But it was a lot cheaper to produce, and its time had come like everything else before it. Take care Mr. Donnie

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW Thanks so much for sharing this and your memories. God bless you.

[@cynthiaswearingen1037]

So many good memories are stirred up by this video, Donnie. Sliced bologna, flour and sugar in barrels...good times. God bless you.🙏❤️

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. God bless you.

[@indisputablefacts8507]

You got another pop bottle collector over here. Thanks for sharing! One thing about our elders that we shouldn't be too proud of: They made a mess and did not care. But, you can't judge; times were different then.

[@joellaeggers5953]

I remember walking to the store which we walked across the hill behind our house with a lard bucket full of eggs to trade for can lid tops or whatever Mama needed at the time. I have such wonderful memories of growing up. We were poor but there was so much love. I'm the youngest of 9 children.

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.

[@louparry7721]

i used to Love all the jars of penny candy! There had to be 15-20 different jars. Thanks for bringing that memory back, it really warmed my heart. Where have all the years gone? God Bless you brother.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.

[@katiefyock9607]

We have a little store like these in Fannettsburg, PA called AllyKatz Country Store. It's in a little shed, but Kandie packs so much good stuff in her little store. They have farm animals too so you can see them when you go to shop or bring stuff for her to sell for you at craft fairs. She and her husband work very very hard baking and canning goods for the store. Google em' and check em' out!

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so good to hear. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.

[@beverlyrobertson6796]

GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS. YES THAT'S THE GOOD DAYS. WHAT A TIME IT WAS. AND I MISS IT.💞

[@brendanrapple5361]

Good Old Country Memories . GOD BLESS YOU

[@donnielaws7020]

Thank you friend. God bless you.

[@rickyparsons5573]

Good morning Donnie…. I pray you and your wife are doing well….Thanks for another wonderful video of our history….This reminds me of my childhood and makes me feel young again in my heart…. I hope you will keep making memories for us with your videos as you are able ❤ God Bless You and Lord willing I will see you next time 🙏🏻☦️❤️🙏🏻🇮🇱

[@donnielaws7020]

Good morning my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing your memories. Your very welcome.

[@opalsmith4994]

Thank You so much for all your stories!❤ Yes this one really brought back good memories! How I would love to have one of those old Houses to bring back to life! Love everything old! God Bless ❤😊

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.

[@survival7691]

We had a little country store about a mile down the road from where I lived. They had all the necessities from hot dogs to chewing tobacco. Everybody was in there early in the mornings drinking coffee and standing around the stove. Old Coy Ham's store, and it was a blessing because it took 45 minutes to drive to town.

[@donnielaws7020]

That's great my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.

[@marylaw3465]

I remember the same thing- Finding pop bottles to carry to the store to get some money to buy something to snack on- It’s been many a year but wonderful memories 💜

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.

[@TomRiddle-ww5on]

Morning, im saving this to watch at the cabin this weekend next to stove.

[@donnielaws7020]

Thanks for sharing this my friend.

[@mimime5376]

Hi Donnie! Such beautiful memories. It must have been nice to gather with neighbors and friends. Now days you’re lucky to get a hello from someone. Thanks for sharing! 😊❤️🙏🏼

[@donnielaws7020]

He surely was my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.

[@sherihicks1427]

I sure did enjoy this one! Now, I'm a Yankee--don't hold it against me! But we had those little stores, too. One was maybe 3 miles away, and Mom would go there when she needed bread or milk. Eggs came from a friend from church. There used to be a couple of those near where I live now, and I loved them, because I knew I could find what I needed in a pinch. But they're gone, too. As a child, I always went with my dad to the feed store on Saturday mornings. That's where the old timers would sit in rocking chairs and talk, play checkers, smoke a pipe. That was back in the late 60s, early 70s. I miss that.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing your memories.

[@baneverything5580]

In the 80s I had a 20 dollar tab at our country store. I lived in my car so I had to make it count. The owner would give me 5 bucks each for good arrowheads and he sold old bottles and such. So I walked the creeks catching fish to eat hunting antique bottles and I hunted arrowheads and old home sites with my metal detector. He was a history expert and told me where historical things happened and I`d go hunt relics of that history and bring the finds to him. I cooked the fish I caught in creeks in foil over a fire with wild onions and ate whatever berries, nuts, and wild fruit I could find, and his store provided me with basic supplies like gas, hooks, bread, seasoning, Copenhagen, batteries, and bait. I also picked up cans and valuable scrap metal too. A metal detector is a valuable scrapping tool.

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.

[@baneverything5580]

A game warden tried to get me once for picking up roadkill rabbits and wanted to see a hunting license. I love a rabbit roasted over an oak limb fire. My car was a 4 cylinder so it got great range on gas and in cold weather I looked for rabbits on the road. There were a lot of them some years. But they don`t want you "hunting" roadkill rabbits. But once the game warden realized that`s all I was doing he left me alone but told me the others might write a ticket if they caught me with any. HA! @@donnielaws7020

[@stardust949]

Nice video...I love the old pieces of history that are still here. So much is gone. I love the old barns. Not too many are left. Those old stores---they were like community centers too!

[@donnielaws7020]

So true my friend. Thanks for sharing this.

[@alligatorhorse]

I remember the country stores real well, They sold most of what you needed, and would even make you a baloney sandwich if you stopped in at lunchtime. The world has passed me by, but I am okay with that.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories.

[@jett8193]

I remember a few of these shops when we went camping in the Smokey Mountains one summer, back when I was a kid. I got green apple & grape bubblegum & ice cold bottles of cola 🍬🍬🍬😊☺🤗 Thank you so much for sharing even more of your wonderful history Mr. Donnie❤

[@haroldwilkes6608]

The board and batten siding plus the clapboard brought back memories. My uncle ran a store like that, not a giant conglomerate, it just made life livable for those of us nearby and provided for him and his family. The "profit motive" was there but not the "I'm gonna get stinking rich" attitude. Roofed porch with a 2x12 bench and a kerosene barrel, cold running water chillers for the cokes, curved glass counters with candies and chips and what all else in them, glassed coolers with meats & cheeses ready to slice on the old hand cranked radial meat slicer and wrap in waxed brown paper tied with a string, paper "pokes" there to carry your armload home in (those pokes got reused until they wore out and then they were recycled for wrapping paper and tied with the string from the ball from the grocery store. When is the last time you sent a package through the mail tied with string??? I doubt it's even allowed now. And how big was your string ball Donnie? Two cent cokes and penny candies...waah, I want to go back. And yes, his store has a pot-bellied stove. And then Krogers came to town...

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW Thanks for sharing your memories my friend.

[@irismania]

My roots are in Tennessee. They called them Mom and Pop's stores up here, up north back in the day. None hardly left up here either, very, very few and far between of those that are left. What I always loved was the smell inside !! But I know one thing, I sure miss them. Oh yeah I cashed in those pop bottles too. Thank you for posting!!

[@donnielaws7020]

Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.

[@kennethboydsr3966]

Thanks for bringing back old memories I had two brothers and we would hit the roads gathering up the pop bottles. Loved going by the Texaco station and getting a big Baby Ruth Bar and a cold Pepsie cola it was so good . I had other odd jobs to pick up spending money back in the early 60’s those were good years. ❤

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks for the memories.

[@kennethboydsr3966]

Memories are good I wonder if we carry these memories to heaven with us when we pass over I hope so ♥️

[@Kel_Larua]

I am not as old as some o4 young as others, but I do remember these little stores in the 80s and early 90s around my Grandma's and where we lived. Thank you for these, and I think we are in desperate need of going back to more Mom n Pop shops. God Bless

[@donnielaws7020]

God bless you. Thanks so much for sharing this. Your very welcome my friend.

[@Voartist]

I was talking to my son-in-law about old stores the other night and the good memories I have. We started with Sears and I told him that when I was growing up Sears stores were in old buildings on several floors. I described walking on wood floors and the (good) smells. Of course they're gone. And I told him about going into some of these stores like you showed, and how they felt and smelled. And the sound of the creaking, wooden floors, and how nice the proprietors were. In downtown Murfreesboro there's an old hardware store, Holdens Hardware, still in business, housed in a building that I can't find the age of, but is certainly 1800s. It's long and narrow, old looking, creaking floors, but enjoyable to shop in and they provide good goods and services. Stores today are sterile, and unpersonal. Sad to see the old ones falling down. Thank you Donnie for more stories!

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. Your very welcome.

[@stephenmayne4886]

Morning Donnie, thanks for sharing this great story of the past.

[@donnielaws7020]

Good morning my. Your very welcome.

[@carasteele5424]

Wonderful stories!! Growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee there was a little store down the street from my grandparents house. We use to go an get a ice cream or a coke

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.

[@deanlibby5878]

Thanks Donnie for another great video. I'm 71 years old and yes I remember those good old days 😀.👍🙏

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.

[@fayecable3895]

I do remember doing this more times than I can count. Even as a young adult you didn't dare throw one out. That was like throwing money out the window but as a child I was sure glad people did. Thanks for the sweet memories.

[@donnielaws7020]

Thanks for sharing this my friend.

[@lauramitchell9231]

Love these videos of the old buildings and the stories that go with them❤😊

[@donnielaws7020]

Thank you so much my friend.

[@suz632]

Thank you for this special video. Too bad life isn't still this way. Life was better when people had less. People were better. Nowadays having it all, we don't have this (if that makes sense) God Bless you & yours Mr. Donnie ❤👏👏👏👏😊

[@donnielaws7020]

Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you. Thank you.

[@TEAMWHAT99]

I vividly remember when pop bottles had a nickel deposit. When it went up to a dime,my step sister & I made out like fat rat's picking them up esp. along this one road,kids would get on the school bus with a bottle of Coke and toss it out the school bus window down Pisgah Road. We sure made out on all those big pop bottles. I remember 2 or 3 pieces of candy for a penny. And when stamps went from 8 cents to 10. I remember,as a young kid,buying cigarettes in a vending machine .And back when a pack cost 55 cents.I was born in 68. THANK YOU Donnie,for sharing these, we really enjoy listening to you talk about old times. I was born & raised in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, and have lived just like you speak of.,bringing water in,doing our laundry by hand in the creek. Using bread sacks to Jeep the kids feet dry cuz they had to walk thru a creek on way to schools one my fondest memories are of a tar paper shack we lived in lol.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you. Thanks so much.

[@markpenley8764]

I remember those old stores. Seems they all had a unique smell. It's untelling how many times mom sent me to the store to get a pound of "King Coal" bolony, sliced thick and a loaf of bread. Good times. Where I grew up there was a guy that had an old school bus converted into what everyone called the rolling store. To us it seemed like he had everything in that old bus. I was raised in a mining camp and he would make his way through just about every one. You just had to stand at the end of the alley and flag him down. He must have had a schedule of sorts because everyone knew pretty much when he was coming through. It actually was pretty ingenious for its time. A lot of families didn't have cars and the ones who did the dads would have to drive it to work and the moms either didn't have time or the energy to gather up the kids to walk to the store and back.

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW Thanks for sharing your memories and story my friend. God bless you.

[@LittleOcasioHomestead]

Thank you so much for bringing back history 😊

[@donnielaws7020]

Your very welcome my friend.

[@philaandrew100]

I remember the old store at the cross road to my Grandfathers farm. It was a Post Office, Hardware, General and feed store. It closed in the early 70's. Not a lot of difference between the USA and Australian Rural communities and lifestyles back in the day.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.

[@nancyholcombe8030]

Thank you for the wonderful memories Donnie! I remember the Pot O' Gold store in my town that I'd walk or ride my bike to well. Sometimes me and my friends would get our parents' permission and rode our horses up to it! Two of us would hold the horses while the other two went shopping. I also remember going with my father to the feed store for the horses every two weeks. It's now the only one of the two stores left but it sells more yard equipment and dog food than horse and cattle feed now. All the old pastures are now subdivisions, the horses and cattle are gone. But my memories of this precious time remain!❤ Y'all take care now! May God bless you and yours.

[@donnielaws7020]

That's awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome.

[@TheBeardedCarpenter]

Howdy Donnie- I remember them little stores. We don’t have any of them left around anymore. We never did get more than two cents a pop bottle and it had be same as what the store sold or they wouldn’t buy them. Thank you so much for sharing this. God bless

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend God bless you. Your very welcome.

[@dormiacrouch1905]

The RC an Moon Pie seemed to taste better back then!😊❤

[@donnielaws7020]

Thanks for sharing this my friend.

[@RedneckHillbilly-ho9md]

You guys and the generations before you might have lived through some tough times but I bet you didn't realize just how good of times those were seeing the hell earth is becoming now.

[@donnielaws7020]

That's so true my friend. God bless you.

[@janiefox3458]

Oh the memories this brought back. Dumps Martins was right next to my 3 room school house and CA Snyders were you could buy anything you really needed. Both of these were in Indian Springs, Maryland - Neither one is still in business but Snyders has been converted into a very large house. It was 3 1/2 miles from our house. When I could save up 5 cents I would walk to the store buy a Coke and it would be empty in the first 1/2 mile. Thanks for bringing back the old that doesn't seem so old to me at 76.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. Your very welcome.

[@cadeevans4623]

I love old country stores old Appalachian stores brings back good old memories from the good ole days walk in get a bottle of pop or moon pie back in simpler times life was better more decent

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.

[@cadeevans4623]

My pleasure Donnie anytime buddy thanks God bless you always

[@theresaspaulding6617]

Morning my freind

[@donnielaws7020]

Good morning my friend.

[@banjo1241]

Those stores sure did have good bologna and hoop cheese!

[@donnielaws7020]

That's for sure my friend. Thanks for sharing.

[@KarenSmith-pc8ji]

@banjo1241 Pardon my ignorance, but if I may ask, what is “hoop cheese”? And do you mind sharing which decade you’re referring to? Thank you very much.

[@banjo1241]

@@KarenSmith-pc8ji it is cheese in the shape of a wheel or hoop. I’m referring to the’60’s.

[@donnielaws7020]

Best I can remember it's old farm cheese. I think from goats, but I may be wrong. Ask your phone.

[@KarenSmith-pc8ji]

@@banjo1241 Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. That’s interesting.

[@aprilarmijo6967]

Their the ❤ of the country old mom and pop store's!

[@donnielaws7020]

Amen my friend.

[@mommashiner]

Loved these old stores and stories! I remember at the closest movie theater you could get in for 6 RC cola caps on Saturday. Back then you could stay all day. I remember momma would give us enough for a whole dill pickle to eat in the movie. All week long we would walk the roads and check the store drink boxes where the caps fell in at the opener. It was a competition for those as well. These kids now days will never know what they have missed.

[@donnielaws7020]

WOW that's awesome my friend. Thanks for the memories. God bless you.

[@karengarrison4237]

So well done. Brought back memories even on a local level. Collecting coins and the same rewards.

[@ginah-t]

Thank you for that video, Mr. Donnie. My grandfather had a gas station when I was little. He taught me to pour my peanuts in my coke bottle. Great memories! God bless.

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.

[@roberthand6436]

Many thanks for bringing back some good memories, cousin Donnie! I have mighty fine memories of Mr, Wesley James' White Way Grocery. Mr. Wesley and Mrs. Irene were fine people! Shabbat Shalom, brother, and G-d bless you and yours! Please pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

[@donnielaws7020]

That's awesome my friend. God bless you. Thanks so much for sharing.

[@jarmyvicious]

Thank You so much for the thought invoked discourse on gentler times, the views of what made us "US"

[@donnielaws7020]

Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.

[@dalechurch4954]

Great video so many wonderful memories I grew up in those days.i remember my grandma talked about walking to town to work and buy some groceries and walk back carrying the groceries.and she told me about walking to school and to visit relatives.we helped her with wash day.I remember about all the time we would go bare foot.and the old stores I really enjoy your videos they bring back so many wonderful times in my life also.I thank you for all your hard work and time for making these videos and sharing them.god bless you and your family.I hope you are feeling better.

[@robertburns3014]

I remember looking for soft drink bottles along the road we lived on. There was a little convenience store about a quarter of a mile from where we lived, and we would go down there with our bottles and turn them in for a little bit of change. I would usually buy candy with my money. Good memories!

[@donnielaws7020]

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.

[@John-uv7zp]

Awesome memories Donnie I’d give anything to be back in those times everyone still around to bad things have to change 😢life was great even though we didn’t have a lot THANKS FRIEND GOD BLESS YA

[@donnielaws7020]

Amen my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.

[@amyheltonwalker]

I watched this today with my parents, oh the memories it brought back. My Great Grandfather had a mercantile store and later the post office for our community. My Grandmother ran the store and post office later on. We were blessed to have the old store right on the farm and it was open until the post office closed in 1987 and my Grandmother retired. We used to go the store and get bologna sandwiches and no matter how hard I try I can never fix a bologna sandwich that tasted as good as those old store sandwiches. My Dad’s Uncle had the store in his community. So , we all grew up with the old country store in our families. They all seemed to look alike. We still have my Great Grandfather‘s pot belly stove.

[@johnnyb3477]

Oh my lord, What beautiful memories came flooding back listening to yours. Thank you for sharing!!!

[@donnielaws7020]

Your very welcome my friend.

[@dressedbear296]

I'm a young man, and hearing your stories is actually really sad, I can see something that I and my generation have been yearning for. thank you for keeping the past alive, and I'm honored to be apart of that.

[@donnielaws7020]

Thanks so much for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome. God bless you. Thank you.

[@terryschiller2625]

Thank you Donnie for bring back that memory for me. Nothing like a RC cola and a moon pie. I tell my grandson stories like this and he said papaw those must of been hard times, but I tell him no they were simpler and good times.

[@donnielaws7020]

Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.

[@pamelac2863]

I remember these times It's a shame how it's changed Thank you for sharing this video God bless y'all ❤❤❤

[@donnielaws7020]

Thank you friend for sharing this. Your very welcome. God bless you.