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Date Posted: 20:39:03 02/10/03 Mon
Author: Bill
Author Host/IP: acs-24-154-138-184.zoominternet.net / 24.154.138.184
Subject: Re: Beech Street neighborhood groceries in the 1960s
In reply to: Jonathan E. Wright 's message, "Beech Street neighborhood groceries in the 1960s" on 16:53:15 02/08/03 Sat

Go back to the 50's and there were even more smal stores on Beech St. John Rankin had one on the corner of So 29th & Beech and right across the street was Mr. Lakins, where the new Fire Station is now.
On the corner of Beech & Charles St(That may not be the name of the street - it was right across the street from the trailer park) was a store, don't remember who ran it.
Then you had the one on Beech & Floyd and then to the one on 13th & Beech. Righ across the street from it was the original Dairy Cheer founded by Bill Culbertson. He used to tell us boys that for $1.25 we could have as much as we could eat, but to get the next one, you had to eat the one before. I think Bill now runs a glass distribution place under the Ashland Bridge where Emory Gillum Meat Co used to be.
AS you stated, these stores were on every block and they all made a good living.
Do you remember when the area on the left side of Beech St going toward 13th and around Floyd St was called Boxtown?
WE used to play them in football (we were the Fire Station gang) on a dirt field behind Putnam Stadium. Man, those guys were tough! They most always beat us up pretty good. One of those boys over there was a Lyons and I think He was an All Stater for the Cats.
I grew up on Adams St but passed papers around So 29th St, Joel St and some on Beech and Prichard St.
Boy those were times of innocence!! Never will be times like those.

Is anyone old enough to remember the neighborhood
>grocery stores on Beech Street? These were very
>important to the lives of people who lived near Paul
>Blazer Sr. High School many years ago. The three I
>remember are (1) Miller's Grocery Store, near the back
>sidewalk entrance to Poage Elementary School; the one
>at the corner of Floyd Street and Beech Street; and
>the one at the end of Beech Street near 13th Street.
>These last two I can't remember the names for. If
>anyone can help, I'd be grateful. I grew up on Ranch
>Road in the 60s and was familiar with these stores
>then. What's interesting now as I look back on them is
>the fact that three stores could make a fairly good
>living so incredibly close to each other. Nowadays, of
>course, small independent grocers have no way of
>surviving against the mammoth Wal-Marts, etc., so any
>neighborhood grocers are usually of the 7-11 variety.
>These three small groceries were an important part of
>the memories of those who grew up around Ashland---and
>lots of other places---years ago. Such memories make
>life so rich. If anyone else has memories of any or
>all of these three stores, it would be great to hear
>them!

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