In a message dated 7/18/2004 8:53:52 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: From: "David Cagle" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Upcoming Reunion - Ed Holley's Store >Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:14:21 -0500 > >Farm families traded eggs and chickens for what ever they needed. In >1950, >an egg would buy a bar of candy, a cold drink or a dip of ice cream. >Around Christmas time eggs might be worth a dollar a dozen or more, perhaps >as much as 10 cents each. > >In the 50's and 60's, some stores sent a truck (Peddling Truck or Peddler) >out through the country side and sold items and in return took cash or eggs >and chickens. Trucks from the produce companies would come by the stores >about once a week and deliver items and take the eggs and chickens. I lost >track after that, I don't know where they went---to the large cities I >imagine. > >I don't know Ed Holley nor know where his store was. > >David > As I remember these trucks back into the fourties. They were know as "Rolling Stores". And the Truck was similar as a small Cab-Over Truck as we know them today. I remember many times waiting on the side of the Road for the "Rolling Store" to come by so I could spend my Penny or Two on a Sucker(BB Bat) or piece of Buble Gum. And Grandma would trade farm produce for other items he carried on the truck. Flour, Sugar, Salt, etc. Joe