Remembering my grandmother on her birthday.
She was 70 the year I was born. I have lots of wonderful memories but a favorite "game" we played constantly was Store: how to write tickets and make change from the purchase price back to my customer (her). Thanks to her, it was a game I mastered before ever attending kindergarten, and a career choice I announced at the same age.
{heart emoji}I think of you at least once a day while I'm working and in the last 27 years I have had many instances of giddy enthusiasm that takes me right back to our days of playing Store. It's still fun 50+ years later!
It's no wonder I #lovewhatido

They tore the house down, but my dad, George Turner, was born just across the tracks over here. That's where he was born and raised. When they changed the road, they tore the house down. It just broke my heart, because it was such a pretty home.
A great big sack of cookies, it was 25 or 30 cents. My mother used to give my sisters and me a dozen eggs, and we'd bring it down here and get a whole big sack of candy with that dozen eggs. She'd put then in a little basket, and we'd bring them down here and trade them for candy. I didn't know what soda pop was when I lived down here. I don't remember soda pop when I was little. I guess they had it, but we didn't get any of it.
We used to come down here every Friday night. We'd play croquet and get haircuts. On a Friday night, the store would be full. Joe Gault and my dad were first cousins. We used to have ice cream suppers, and pies, yeah.

Joe D. and Olive E. (Pursley) Gault both the store at Turners in 1918. He was raised at the corner of Division Street and Gault Road. She was raised at the corner of Sunshine Street and Gault Road. Joe's parents had been in a country store on Division Street, so he came with a background in merchandising. He was appointed postmaster in 1918.
The building was a wooden structure at that time with living quarters above the store. A fire destroyed the entire building in 1923, but neighbors came to them and offered to donate field stones to rebuild. Joe and Olive agreed to this and accepted the services of Tom Studley to be the builder. He took out is fee in groceries and supplies.