Fantastic story, I will keep this in my files. Thanks for sharing. Y.H.D. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:05 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Moving Perishables to Market: Southern > Railroads and the Ninetennth -Century Origins of > Southern Truck Farming > > By: James L. McCorkle, Jr > http://www.jstor.org/pss/3743542 > > > The above is an interesting little article. It helps me understand my > father's success as a produce broker at the State Farmers Market in > Thomasville, Ga. My parents married in 1929 and my BigMama lived with > them. > She had a big Packard (car). BigMama loaned Daddy her car to go out into > the > country and buy vegetables. He would load that Packard as full as he could > get it. Then he came back to town & sold the vegetables to little > neighborhood grocery stores (No Winn Dixie's then). > > Eventually, with help from local politicians, Daddy got the State of > Georgia to build a Farmers Market., this c1940. Then the farmers brought > their vegetables to be auctioned. My Daddy was the first buyer on the > market and occupied stalls 1 & 2, until his death in December 1979. > > I worked with him some seasons and learned a lot about marketing the > vegetables, fruits & pecans and the shipping too. When food was no > longer > seasonal here, he would drive down to Pompano Beach, Plant City or Miami > Florida areas and buy whatever was fresh there and load a 10 Wheeler (big > truck). Then he would transport that food to the Farmers Market in Atlanta > and Hendersonville, NC. Then he went off the side of a mountain with his > truck in the dead of night c1954. He had a broken neck and that finished > my > his driving his own truck and he had to hire it done. > > Today the Thomasville State Farmers Market is 2nd in size, only to > Atlanta's......We've come a long way baby...... > > Now go stoke that fire...... > > Winnette > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 100107-1, 01/07/2010 > Tested on: 1/8/2010 11:05:58 AM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2010 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >