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From: Ed Stitt <>
Subject: Re: Drummers,The Watkins Man et al
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 97 11:25:10 -0500 (CDT)


>When I was yound in the mid to late 1940s a store in the little town
>sent out its rolling store. Today's bookmobiles remind me of it. The
>sides folded out to reveal its wares on shelves. Mostly it was canned
>goods and tinker-type products, things the housewife needed. After the
>40s it was seen no more. By then, so many people had cars that getting
>to town was easier and there was much less market for the things the
>rolling store brought to its rural clientele.
>
>Martha Spencer

That reminds me of the 2nd grade in the old North Salem schoolhouse in
Brown Co., IN. North Salem was a one-room school and there was no such
thing as 7-11, etc, after all, this was 1945! But all was not lost,
every Thursday morning, the huckster came along in his converted school
bus which carried everything a kid could desire (and momma, too!). Our
teacher would line us up at the end of the driveway and when it was safe,
she would march us all across the highway where we would file in, so-o-o
slowly to look at all of the marvels that bus contained and to spend our
five cents (if we were lucky and Mom had five cents and we hadn't forgot).
What memories!

Ed Stitt


Researching (B/URKHART). (B/UTLER), (H/ATTON}, (C/OONEY),
(H/OWARD) (J/EWELL), (N/EAL), (S/TITT)

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