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3 unusual facts about general store


Edgar Felix Bikeway

Allenwood-Lakewood road at the historic Allenwood General store.

Mildenhall, Wiltshire

Until a few years ago Mildenhall had a post office and village shop.

Molly Dobbs

After briefly working in her father's shop and at Kirk's kennels, Molly then starts working for Dev Alahan at D&S Alahans Corner shop.


Centerville, North Carolina

Centerville is centered on "the crossroads", which is the intersection of NC-561 and NC-58, and consists of three small old-fashioned country stores, one each on three of that intersection's four corners.

Churchill, Victoria

The Churchill Newsagency opened in 1967 and was run by Ian and Winifred Jones who had previously run the Yinnar General Store.

Gordon Peter Campbell

As a youth, he earned pocket money by working in the general store and operating a dance hall with friends that, on one occasion, featured a young Guy Lombardo conducting the orchestra.

Newstead, Victoria

It has two pubs, community centre, cafe, a general store, a Rural Transaction Centre (with Internet café, Bendigo Bank, library, daycare and other services), a small licensed IGA and bakery, a swimming pool, a hairdresser as well as a monthly newspaper, the Newstead Echo.

Pioneer City

The park was opened on Memorial Day weekend 1966 by photography studio magnate Myron M. "Mike" Weiss, Sr. as a built-to-scale Dodge City, Kansas, complete with a saloon, general store, Pony Express office, opera house and casino, undertaker, and barber shop, highlighted by cowboy actors who staged gunfights at high noon.

Ten Sleep, Wyoming

Ten Sleep Mercantile, also known as Ten Sleep Hardware, is an example of a typical small-town general store and it has been the focal point of the town since it was built in 1905 by H.T. Church.

Twyford, Buckinghamshire

There is one public house, one general store and Post Office called Grange Stores, and a Chinese, Thai and English takeaway called Lucky Star.

Wonder, Oregon

The town apparently got its name in 1902 after John T. Roberson opened a general store two miles south of Wilderville, and residents wondered how he would get enough business to make a living as the area did not have many settlers.


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The letter is also referenced during a conversation with Benjamin Franklin in the 2012 video game Assassin's Creed III during a cutscene in a general store.

Alvadore, Oregon

Today Alvadore is home to a general store and gas station that contains a post office (ZIP Code 97409), a large regional nursery—Decker Nursery—known for its Christmas trees, a volunteer fire department, the Alvadore Christian Church, a nut-drying plant affiliated with Blue Diamond Growers, and a variety of other agricultural businesses including an organic strawberry farm (Berg's Berries and Organic Produce).

Bury Park

Church school halls were opened in 1895, Bury Park United Reformed Church Church was built in 1903, and Luton Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd opened a general store at the junction of Dunstable Road and Leagrave Road in 1906.

Carseland, Alberta

It boasted six grain elevators, a railway station, school, general store, barber shop and pool-room, post office, restaurant, garage and Ford car dealer, well house, lumber yard, hardware store, meat market, bank, stock yards, two churches, hotel and community centre.

Christine Lund

Lund has two grown daughters, and currently runs a small general store in Baranof Warm Springs, Alaska.

Cogar, Oklahoma

The exterior of the abandoned W.S. Kelly gas station and general store in Cogar can be seen in the 1988 movie, "Rain Man".

Colkirk

Other facilities, which were once part of village life and have passed into history, include a Pork Butcher's Shop, a General Store and a Carpenter and Undertaker, all on Hall Lane, together with a Blacksmith and a Baker's Shop on Dereham Road.

Congresbury

In 2013, in the village precinct on Brinsea Street there is a Costcutter general store, baker and sandwich shop, butcher, post office, fish and chip shop, farmers' general store and nearby, two small, car dealerships.

Coxwold

The inn has a restaurant, a small general store with a delicatessen, and bears the arms and motto of Baron Fauconberg.

Davy Walsh

After retiring as a player Walsh owned a sports shop / general store in Droitwich and later ran holiday homes in Thurlestone and Kingsbridge in Devon.

Drayton, Queensland

Thomas Alford, an early settler in the area who built a house, general store, and post office in the area, named the town after his home village in Somerset.

Fishing Creek, Maryland

Located on a narrow island served primarily by Hoopers Island Road, Fishing Creek has a restaurant (Old Salty's), a post office, and a general store (King's Island Pride), as well as crabbing businesses.

FitzGerald's Department Stores

FitzGerald's also had substantial stores in Launceston and Burnie (occupying the site of a former theatre), as well as stores in suburban Hobart (Eastlands and Moonah) and a small (600 square metre) store in New Norfolk (occupying a general store built in 1914).

Giant Eagle

The commercials featured everything from the general store, the produce and deli departments to a spot featuring Jay Bell and Jeff King of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Harold Bishop

While cheering up Donna Freedman (Margot Robbie) at the General Store, Harold suffers a heart attack, which leaves him fighting for his life.

Headsville, West Virginia

After 35 years as a working model of a 19th-century post office and general store, the historic Headsville Post Office shut its doors when the museum was closed for renovation in 2006, and plans were made to reopen it at the American Philatelic Center in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, headquarters of the American Philatelic Society.

Heathfield, South Australia

It is home to Heathfield High School, Heathfield Primary School, Heathfield Oval, the Heathfield Waste Depot, Heathfield General Store, Mount Lofty Sand and Metal, Masonic homes (retirement Village), Nirvana Farm (multi award winning biodynamic farm) and Chris Dutton Subaru, along with numerous walking trails.

Henry McKenney

He chose land where the north-south and east-west ox cart paths crossed, in order to build a general store with his half-brother John Christian Schultz.

History of Fort Worth, Texas

Julian Feild opened a flour mill and general store in 1856 and the Butterfield Overland Mail and the Southern Pacific Stage Line used the town as their western terminus on the westward journey to California.

John S. Barry

In 1834, Barry moved to Constantine, Michigan and opened a general store in that village's first frame-built building.

Kent Life

The oast houses a reconstruction of a village store, being the interior fittings of a general store in Hawkhurst.

Lake Cormorant, Mississippi

Klack's General Store in Lake Cormorant is where blues singer Son House was recorded for the Library of Congress in 1941.

Lawrence Lawrason

In 1832, he moved to London and opened a general store and also sold dry goods wholesale, in partnership with George Jervis Goodhue.

Lemuel Milk

In 1868, he opened a general store in Chebanse, Illinois, which he oversaw until selling his interest in 1883.

Meadows, Illinois

With the advant of the building of Interstate 55, 3 miles to the east near Chenoa, Meadows was then considered out of the way and the local bank in Meadows closed, general store, auto garage, and a school all were closed inevitably, with the interstate being to blame.

Moolort, Victoria

In the next fifty years even the state school, general store and the last post office were closed with locals having to travel twelve kilometers (7.5 miles) to Carisbrook or sixteen (10 miles) to Newstead for their needs.

Pennellville, New York

the hamlet was located on the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad, and contained a general store, cheese-factory, the saw-mill, a brick-yard, a blacksmithy, a railroad depot, telegraph and express offices, a hotel, a Universalist church, and a brick school-house.

Plockton

The village boasts a small general store with a cafe; a takeaway; the Plockton Shores restaurant; newsagent and craft shop; three hotels with pubs; numerous B&Bs; library with free internet access and a village hall, which holds community events and art exhibitions.

Port Joli, Nova Scotia

The only public facilities are a United Church of Canada,recently closed and sold, a small general store(also closed), and a community hall, under heritage renovations.

Prairie Hill, Washington County, Texas

Saint John Lutheran Church was located there, as was the Hafer General Store, the Prairie Hill School, and the doctor's office.

Ramingining, Northern Territory

The village has an airstrip at Ramingining Airport, a general store, a school, a police station opened in January 2008, and a health clinic with four nurses and a fly in doctor every Tuesday/Wednesday from Nhulunbuy.

Return to Green Acres

This movie was the final acting performance of character actor Frank Cady, who played Mr. Drucker, the Hooterville general store proprietor, who was featured concurrently on both Green Acres and the sister CBS sitcom from which it was spun off, Petticoat Junction; Cady died in 2012.

Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park

Along with the millhouse and milldam, the park includes York's two-story house, York's general store and post office, the Wolf River Cemetery (where York and his family are buried), the Wolf River Methodist Church, the York Bible Institute, an M247 Sergeant York tank, and various picnic facilities.

Stinson Lake

The village of Stinson Lake, with a general store, is at the lake's outlet, at the top of a long climb up the paved Stinson Lake Road from the village of Rumney.

The Bashful Bachelor

Small town store owner Lum Edwards (Chester Lauck) in Pine Ridge has a thorn in his side because his partner in the Jot-em-Down general store, Abner Peabody (Norris Goff), has exchanged the store delivery car for a race track horse.

The Boggart

Tommy Cameron is a person who has known the boggart for years as a frequent nuisance at his family's general store in Port Appin, Scotland.

The Secret Life of Bees

There, they buy lunch at a general store, and Lily recognizes a picture of the same "Black Mary", but on the side of a jar of honey.

Todd General Store

Established in 1914, The Todd General Store (originally Cook Brothers General Store) was built by Walter and Monroe Cook in anticipation of the arrival of the Norfolk and Western "Virginia Creeper" railroad.

Transylvania, Louisiana

As the name of Transylvania is associated by many people in the United States with the Hollywood Dracula movies, the general store in the town sells Dracula- and bat-related merchandise to people passing through on Highway 65.

Trexler Historic District

Notable buildings include the 3-story, log Georgian style Ritter House (1790); Amos Trexler House (1886); 1 1/2-story log house (c. 1800); Trexler General Store (1890); cider mill (c. 1850); 3-story, frame storage building (1917); and Nathan Trexler House (1875).

Turl Street

While it is dominated by the three Turl Street colleges, the street houses several shops, including a sports shop, a bar and restaurant (the Turl Street Kitchen), a costume-magic shop, an Oxfam shop, a number of jewellery and memorabilia shops, a cafe, a news agent/general store, a whisky shop, a shoe shop (Duckers, featured in Atonement), a picture-framing workshop, and the traditional gentleman's tailors, Walters of Oxford.

Vestby

Many Norwegian emigrants went to America during the 1840s and later settled in the area of the present city of Westby, Wisconsin (named after general store owner and American Civil War Union soldier Ole T. Westby); a city which still has a mostly Norwegian American population.

Virginia-Highland

Portions of the films Life as We Know It (the bakery portrayed was the real-life Belly General Store) and Trouble with the Curve (George's restaurant) were filmed in Virginia-Highland.

W. W. Greener

Wilbur Jonas, the general store owner, offers to sell Matt Dillon four Greener shotguns at an attractive price, in "Renegade White", episode 4.30 of Gunsmoke.

Westby, Wisconsin

Westby was named after general store owner and Civil War Union soldier Ole T. Westby of Biri, Norway, where many of the city's Norwegian-American settlers originated.

Westfield Plaza Bonita

The mall has featured such now defunct chains as Waldenbooks, Garden Botanika, and was one of four original locations of the concept Sesame Street General Store.

Wyoming Mercantile

Wyoming Mercantile, also known as the Aladdin General Store is a preserved small-town general store in Aladdin, Wyoming.