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Date Posted: 13:12:09 02/28/03 Fri
Author: Linda Strother
Author Host/IP: cpc432.cpc.unc.edu / 152.2.187.122
Subject: Re: Beech Street neighborhood groceries in the 1960s
In reply to: Bill 's message, "Re: Beech Street neighborhood groceries in the 1960s" on 20:39:03 02/10/03 Mon

>Wow your post took me back. My sister and I lived on Elliott and when walking to Putnam took the cut through..(someones back yard) to the store on Beech street. That is where we spent our lunch money. I remember the store had an old wood floor and it was dark inside. A bag of Snyder's chips were a dime, a Pepsi in a bottle was 15 cents and you could get a handfull of penny candy and gum and be good for the day!

Do you remember Sherry Jones? She was class 1972, I used to run around with her in later years? I lost contact with her in the early 70's. SHe lived on Ranch too.

I remember the Dairy Cheer, the B Burgers were 10 or 15 cents and a cherry coke was a little less. Wow that brings back some memories.They had the best shakes too. It was the place to be in Jr. High on a sat morning before we could drive, we all rode our bikes all over Beech street and stopped at the Dairy Cheer.

Thanks for the memories.

Linda




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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