Subj : Re: Then and now
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Thu Aug 29 2019 15:00:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Daryl Stout on 08-26-19  06:13 <=-

 >   I miss the old times, when things were slower, everyone knew each
 > other, and you didn't have to worry about locking your doors at night.

 JM> Yep.
 JM> Things were a lot better then and we didn't really appreciate the
 JM> times. Just think, someday today' kids will look back at the present
 JM> as the "old days".  I only wonder what they will have to say about
 JM> them...  

The scary thing is thinking how much worse things might get, so that the
present /would/ be the good old days....

 >   At a Lowe's Truck Stop in southwest Little Rock, a Subway sandwich
 > shop, and a Hardee's Restaurant are in the same building as the
 > convenience store...along with gas pumps outside for cars and trucks.

 JM> I saw a lot of Love's along the way.  Nancy is familiar with them
 JM> I'm sure since saw a lot in NYS.
 JM> I remember the name because we had a locally owned hardware store
 JM> here for years and years called Love's.  

Love's or Lowe's...?  There are Lowe's (big box) hardware stores here...
I've not seen Lowe's Truck Stops here, though...

 JM> It was a small old-fashioned place, crammed floor to ceiling with
 JM> all sorts of things.  Shelves and shelves of odds and ends in the
 JM> hardware business with a display of larger items, which were kept in a
 JM> back room. Need a left handed hammer?  They had one.  :)
 JM> If one couldn't find what they wanted just ask any clerk and they
 JM> knew exactly where it was.  
 JM> No big flashy place like big box hardware stores.

We had a place like that here in our neighborhood... Hunt's Hardware, a
family-owned business for 4-5, maybe more, generations... just like you
describe... and our go-to place... :)  They closed forever a few years
ago, as the next generation wasn't interested in carrying on the
tradition... and is sorely missed by the neighborhood... They were
almost the last one in the area... and the only other one near us closed
this year...  So now we have to go to the big box places, which don't
have nearly as much of the "strange" stuff...
 
ttyl      neb

.... "I was late because of a tire problem," said Tom flatly.

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