This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/yIB.2ACE/895.2.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, I hit the enter key in error. Let me try to do better this time. I attended the school at BlackHawk until the 9th grade and then we went to school in Vaiden,Ms. Growing up nearby, I spent many hours with my dad in the little stores (they seemed big to me back then). I'm not sure which was the Brewer building but let me tell you a little about the stores as I remember them. As you came down the little hill from the school to Blackhawk there was a service station owned and operated by the Galey family. There was always a lot of the family around as well as other people in the community. There was a shed that extended from the building out to cover the gas pump. Everyone sat around on the couple or three straight chairs and probably a wooded drink case or two would be turned on the side so it could be used to sit on. I remember you had to pump the gas up in the tank where it would register the gallons ( held about 5 gallons, I think) and from there it could be pumped in the vehicles. I remember most people bought only a dollar's worth or maybe 2. I am still friends with some of this family. The next building on the right was a general store owned and operated by Leon and Clementine Tate. We were friends with them and I always got a free coke and maybe a slice of cheese or on special occasions, a bar of candy was a treat. They had a refrigerated meat display and they sold sliced cheese, bologna, ham and possibly other things I can't remember. You could buy just about anythink you needed for the farm and the house in there. I saw new things everytime I went inside. At one time there was a little side store built on