This is today's Country Mile store building, currently housing an art gallery. On this spot stood the grocery store operated by Mr. Elmer and Fain Nail Dopson during the 1930's, 40's, and 50's.  It was your typical country store of the times, complete with a gravity fed gas pump, in which you pumped the quantity of gas you wanted up into a clear glass container sitting atop the pump. You then took the hose from the pump and placed the end of it into your gas tank opening, allowing the gas in the glass container to flow into your gas tank.  There was even a rack onto which you could drive your car and change your own oil.  The used oil collection barrel underneath the rack had no lid and many a local dog was dunked into the oil in the barrel to provide them with the country cure for the mange,

This is today's Country Mile store building, currently housing an art gallery. On this spot stood the grocery store operated by Mr. Elmer and Fain Nail Dopson during the 1930's, 40's, and 50's. It was your typical country store of the times, complete with a gravity fed gas pump, in which you pumped the quantity of gas you wanted up into a clear glass container sitting atop the pump. You then took the hose from the pump and placed the end of it into your gas tank opening, allowing the gas in the glass container to flow into your gas tank. There was even a rack onto which you could drive your car and change your own oil. The used oil collection barrel underneath the rack had no lid and many a local dog was dunked into the oil in the barrel to provide them with the country cure for the mange,

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04.05 | 17:46

I love quotes! Outstanding and encouraging!

04.05 | 17:43

I don't see your wonderful books mentioned! Where are they?

04.05 | 17:40

I hadn't visited your page in a while. This is truly a labor of love....such detail. I think it will mean a lot to the community!

28.01 | 04:07

Deborah, welcome to the neighborhood. I hope to visit you soon.

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