My Friday memory was sparked by Russ, and I thank you for it, friend. He was doing an entry about old country stores. We had an awesome store in this tiny town...Marsha's.
I don't remember what the real name of the store was, but we all called
it Marsha's. It might have BEEN the real name, who knows?
Marsha was a pharmacist, and ran the drug store. It was so much
more than a drug store, though. Marsha had a real,
honest-to-goodness soda fountain. Cherry Coke, vanilla Coke,
vanilla phosphate, chocolate malt, whatever you wanted, you could
get. Wow, you have NO idea how wonderful it was.
A bunch of us would head there after school. Other times, Jim and
I would ride our bikes 2 miles to town in the summer to go there.
We'd park our bikes right outside and go in to heaven on Earth.
Marsha was an awesome lady. She would chat with us, ask about
school...just generally be a good person.
I can remember walking from school to Marsha's to buy a Mars bar
(whatever happened to Mars bars?) and a Diet Coke. My friends
laughed at that, but I didn't care. Then we'd walk back to school
to jump on the bus to head to some away ball game.
I wish I knew what happened to Marsha, or what her last name was, for
that matter. I wish I had ONE of those lazy summer afternoons
back. I wish I could let MY kids ride their bikes to the store,
without worrying about weirdos. I love my life, and where I am in
it...I just sometimes yearn for the "good ol' days".
P.S. Where did we get money for soda fountain treasures? Dad? I don't remember him handing us money that
often, but he had to! AH HAH! I knew that gruff thing was
only on the exterior, but each Friday memory reveals more about his
tender heart!
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Marsha has a pharmacy in Odessa. There's no soda fountain, though. You got to spend your lunch money because you got your lunch free for working in the cafeteria. We still gave you the money: Viola! Spending money.
Mars bars are still around.... but not as common as they used to be. They tried a couple of variations on them (dark chocolate was one I thing), but the original is best! They used to be one of my favorites.
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Ours was on the corner. My mom worked there part time in the early 50's. I would go in and get a cherry vanilla coke. I also loved strawberry phosphate. Thanks for jogging the memory! Blessings, Penny http://journals.aol.com/firestormkids04/FromHeretoThere
It's such an f***ing shame that places like that are disappearing. My personal favorite was Vanilla Pepsi at the local Rexall's. It's gone.
I love that memory. I miss the small town we used to live in as kids. All of the original buildings are gone now and it's basically a pass through. Sad....;o)
Oh, wow! We had two old drugstores in our town. Both gone now. The counter out of one is in a relatives relative's house! LOl THere is STILL an old fashioned soda counter in Woodville, TX! - Barbara
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Her last name is Dirck. That place was just awesome
We find out more and more about your dad thriugh your memories.
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