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    1. [ARDREW-L] Green Hill store
    2. Melissa Jones
    3. Well, I am just having a slow day at work (edit, compile, test...repeat!), so I figured I would reminisce...as much as a puppy my age can do so!!! Does anyone else miss that little store that used to be out at Green Hill? At least, I believe that's where it was...back last December when my Uncle Norman and Aunt Susie (Chadwick) were taking Dad and me around to various cemeteries, they pointed out "And that's where the Green Hill store used to be..." I was dumbfounded. You mean those places get torn down??!! That was a little part of my childhood!! If I am thinking of the right store, we would go there sometimes during visits to my grandparents. The store always seemed dark and cool inside, even on a warm summer day. There was a smell when you walked in--a smell I could never describe in words but will never forget. Not a bad smell, mind you--a smell that conjures up pleasant memories for me of childhood. We would go there sometimes for Cokes you slid out one by one from an old 'horizontal' refrigerated case. Sometimes we would get those orange sherbet push-ups, or little candy necklaces. I wouldn't have any idea what else the store sold--my siblings and I were just interested in Cokes and sweets!! I don't have an inkling who ran the store, but I can remember going up to the counter and being greeted as "Little Larry" every time!!! Yes, I know that even if the store hadn't been torn down, it would be a different experience for me to walk into today. But I still think it's a shame that it's gone. Does anyone know when the store got torn down? --Melissa

    10/26/1998 05:43:14