Edgar, across on the other corner from the Bear Market was Umbergers store..I used to watch for the delivery truck to stop there and unload..I would run in there ASAP and ask for a pack of cigarettes as they were scarce back then and I knew they had cigarettes when that truck brought them from Gordon-Dalton wholesale house which was behinf the First & Merchants Bank in the east end... I lived in the west end, and also in the east end of Radford.......I lived up over Whitehead's Drug store which was on the corner in east end ..just 1/2 a block up the side street..(I think it was 3rd ave) was Bibee's Supermarket where we bought groceries....there were 3 theaters in Radford.... the state theater and the Radford theater in the east end and another theater in the west end.... I worked at Clover Creamery and ate quite a bit at Betty's Steak House across from the west end theater.....Jake Scott had a hole-in-the wall restaurant beside that theater where he sold hot dogs, 2 for 15 cents. but he cut the weiner in half the long way and put 1/2 of a weiner on each hot dog...Wade's Supermarket is where the creamery stood back then... Ole Paul keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul

Yep the names you mention come back to mind now. I worked with Gerald Phillips at the powder plant and he was a ex-Clover Creamery worker. I remember Paul when I was young and walked to Doc and Effie Jewell's store in Otey community of Montgomery county that they owned stock in Clover Creamery that also had a plant in Roanoke and also stock in Crockett Springs Hotel. I think Dock took my nephew to doctor/hospital in Christiansburg when my nephew was bitten by a copperhead snake near the Crockett Springs Hotel. Edgar Vest PSALM 100:3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: >From: pogoat2@webtv.net (paul) >Reply-To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com >To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] not genealogy--back to my Ole Virginny home >Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:20:10 -0500 > >Edgar, across on the other corner from the Bear Market was Umbergers >store..I used to watch for the delivery truck to stop there and >unload..I would run in there ASAP and ask for a pack of cigarettes as >they were scarce back then and I knew they had cigarettes when that >truck brought them from Gordon-Dalton wholesale house which was behinf >the First & Merchants Bank in the east end... >I lived in the west end, and also in the east end of Radford.......I >lived up over Whitehead's Drug store which was on the corner in east end >..just 1/2 a block up the side street..(I think it was 3rd ave) was >Bibee's Supermarket where we bought groceries....there were 3 theaters >in Radford.... the state theater and the Radford theater in the east end >and another theater in the west end.... >I worked at Clover Creamery and ate quite a bit at Betty's Steak House >across from the west end theater.....Jake Scott had a hole-in-the wall >restaurant beside that theater where he sold hot dogs, 2 for 15 cents. >but he cut the weiner in half the long way and put 1/2 of a weiner on >each hot dog...Wade's Supermarket is where the creamery stood back >then... >Ole Paul > >keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul > >********************************** >Note from List Administrator!!! >The Second Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll >Call. Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us >something about your Brick Wall person. >To contact Listowner: >Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com >********************************** >Search this list's archived messages! >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message