As a park ranger in the 70's, one of my favorite stops for lunch was Elsie Storie's Grocery: a slab of "hoop cheese", a half inch slab of bologna, and two slices of Sunbeam bread slathered with mayonnaise - all washed down with an RC Cola: Heaven!
It's a shame that balogny does not taste as good as it did back in the day. Now it's so filled with sodium, it's one of the foods that I should avoid with my hypertension.
Amen! Here I East Tennessee, you can still find a few of those old time general stores and get that sort roof wonderful lunch. You've made me hungry! Wonder what's in the fridge?
This place has historic interest to the town it is in and should be restored. Schools could take the kids on class trips to learn what life was like at the turn of the 20th century.
Tell what it was like for the people benefiting from the fruits of other people's pain, or tell what it was like for the slaves that had to endure all that pain
@@jeweltaylor33 What a miserable person you must be. We get indoctrinated with the fabricated version of history for the most part. It's worse today because there happens to be an agenda playing out.
Kappy, I know this place! I took many photos of it! It was a train station, (believe it or not, there was a rail line that ran behind there in the late 1800's early 1900's) store, boarding house, and I heard a bakery in the 70's! So glad you checked it out !!!!
Absolutely wonderful!! Made my day.. after hearing bad news all over the world... just thinking how life was so pleasant not so long ago.. love to all from Italy 🇮🇹
Kap, the reason there is two separate 2nd story areas is the area above the store was for store inventory. The big landing in the stair would have had the store keepers desk and provided a vantage point to watch the store, as well as keep the store accounts out of the way of "store traffic" (ie prying eyes, kids, etc). The outside staircase to the second story allowed inventory delivery straight to the upper room. The house part was totally separate living quarters, though there was a bathroom close to the store for easy access.
You did a great job with the video. You took your time and moved smoothly. You didn't jerk the camera. It was easy to focus. You presented a larger view, so a person could really grasp what each room looked. Thank you for a job well done.
It looked like the store had two levels for shopping or storage. There was shelves on the second floor of the store. Loved the shelves with the drawers in the store. Picturing little kids shopping with mom and staring at lolipops in a jar. Went to Telico Lake on a day trip in East Tennessee. There was a general store still operating. It had double screen doors at entrance. Wide wood plank floors and counters that went length of store. Only had necessities for the locals. Iron skillets, overalls, boots, oil lamps and tools. There was a little section of canned goods. Loved thinking of the slower times. Never missing a chance to say hi to a neibors and tell tall tales.Thanks for sharing
Don't know about "slower"---- most had to toil from sunup to sundown. There was probably little 'slowing down'. In the late 1800's: people gardened, canned, sewed their own clothes, made their own soap, washed clothes in a tub with a wash board, raised and slaughtered farm animals... barely a moment's rest except on "the Lord's Day."
@@gordon3186 Gordon, your so right. Our ancestors did work hard. When I lived in East Tennessee some folks were still doing some of those things. That was in the eighties. I loved those people. What I meant by slower times is they were not in such a hurry. Their entertainment is sitting on the porch drinking sweet tea and telling stories. I don't know how many people invited me in for supper. It always seemed the bowls were bottomless. I hold those memories. Or were you just funning me ? Either way thanks for the response. Be safe.
I remember going to one of these stores as a young fella. At the back there was a grille where you could get a hamburger for a dime. They were REALLY good. Years later, the cook told me that they took stale bread and extra meat cuts that were ground up together & made those delicious burgers. Bet a modern food inspector would have fainted over the process....LOL
That had to be cool! I remember things like that to! The sort of good old days! I can remember in junior high walking across the street to this little hamburger joint where burgers were $0.50 and Fries were a quarter. Going back even further my papa used to take me to McDonald's when it was still a relatively new place to eat, hamburgers were a dime, and Fries were only $0.07. Loved those Burgers and Fries!
@@ellenrichardson8701 We didn't get a McDonald's in my home town until the late 1950's and it was amazing. Kids today don't believe me that in those days, you could drive up there, get in line, order (for me and my buddies, anyway) three hamburgers, fries, and either a shake or a soft drink---19 cents each! We didn't have Sales Tax yet, so you handed the clerk a buck and he/she gave you a nickel's change. "Course, the Minimum Wage then was $1.10/hr. Still, as my girlfriend's younger brother said, "Those 'burgers are so bad you can get addicted to them. You can't even remove the stupid dill pickle or it'd ruin the whole affect!" I still prefer to occasionally "Dine in simple elegance at Mickey Dee's." I actually get two or three and an order of fries in a sack, to bring home. I keep a 12-pack of Coke in the 'frige (gotta have my caffeine and sugar fix).
@@oldenweery7510 that is a cool story! Better you enjoy your pop then alcohol! Sometimes I wish we could return to those so-called olden days! Life was a wee bit simpler then don't you agree?
@@ellenrichardson8701 I used to kid my mom about "Our Terrible Upbringing"---with my arm around her and pressing my cheek against hers. She and Dad made all holidays special, including birthdays, and even "ordinary" summer Sundays, when Mom would somehow coordinate with all the women in the family so we'd all show up for picnics at various nearby parks and beaches. Summer vacations were planned adventures, a couple of evenings getting ready, then leaving home, usually toward the "Northwoods." They made Christmas completely magical and I and my two brothers all became infected with the same lovely "disease." We raised our kids with the same magic, but sadly, I don't think the various nieces and nephews carried on the same, so I guess the magic was distilled away to nothing. (I still decorate a Christmas tree every year---and my neighbors in our Senior Apartment Building start to ask about it around Thanksgiving.) Stay safe!
Great explore Kappy, must've been a neat place back in its day,, i may be wrong but i think the object you see at the 8:00 mark is, the remnants of a Gaslight fixture, which really tells the age of the building,, you see them a lot in older city buildings, so yeah definitely early 1800's
Wow!!! This place screams of more simple times. I can see local ladies standing at the counter getting all the town gossip from the proprietor. Men sitting on the porch and children running around. Love the electric wires tacked to the ceiling. Simple times indeed.
Right. It would appear that the parents and their adult child with spouse lived there. They just "added on" and kept it going... Sadly, the chains crowded out the mom & pop stores. Automobiles, Sears & Roebuck, highways, etc..
What an awesome place! Makes you want to go back in time and see everyday life in full swing there. Sorta makes me think of Ike's General Store on The Waltons. Looks very sturdy built. Thank you so much for this unique upload!
Great find, Kappy! Staircase was incredible. Floor above store was probably storeroom. Similar place was across road from us as I was growing up. Man was a butcher so always had fresh meat. True general store. Could get everything from meat to cheese to sewing notions. They lived above the store. Great memories! Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and healthy!!
I would’ve love to have seen that when they first built it I bet it was beautiful my grandfather own something like that in Mississippi and then when the depression hit he lost everything
Even though falling in on itself, it is still beautiful seeing these homes from late 1800s to probably the 40's. I watch every video you put out :) Thank you for sharing.
Bet it was a beautiful place at one time. Interesting architecture..I remember houses that were little stores when I was little in the sixties.. Gramma would send me up to the Corner Store to get her a cream soda and for me 7-up lol
This is one of my favorites. What a great house. Restored it would make the most amazing antique store/ home. the design of this house was so interesting.
The store looks like one in "Little house on the prairie"! I could see bolts of fabric and ribbon on shelves.Bags of seed and a barrel of pickles.Probably a checker board on a table. Very cool!
What a great place this must have been. I’ll bet there was a potbelly stove in the middle of that general store part connected to the chimney. Wish we still had nice laid back general stores like this where you could sit on the porch and chat awhile.
This is a fantastic find, Kappy. Great job 👍 You can't find the places like this anymore. My opinion, the house came first then the store. The first upstairs, I think was part of the store. Like maybe that's where they kept the linens, dry goods and other household items. Thanks for this. I love it
Out of all of your videos this one is one of my most favorites. I remember places like this when I was a kid. Think of the history. Likely all family run. Thank you
I remember a wonderful store like this near my grandmother's house. The squeaky front screen door with a sign that advertised Grape Nehi sodypop. Yes, I can remember the smell of it also. One of the best sounds was walking on those old wooden floors. Nothing like it today. Great memories. Thanks Kappy! Ya did good! You could dig a lot of treasure outside with a metal detector.
I love it! I hate to see the old place decay and vanish, it was such a nice building at one time, and I'll bet lots of people shopped at the general store. The old counters in the store are restorable, someone would love to have them in their farm style home, at least I would. The kitchen sink was in very good condition. Thanks for sharing. Have a great week. 🙂🏡
Sad that this store and house. Is so deteriorated. But I still enjoyed the history. Shame that its not restored .Thank you for sharing your video. Stay safe and well.
Love this. That general store brought back so many memories of the “mom and pop” shops that were in every neighborhood in the 1950s and 60s. Too bad it’s so far gone to restore.
Never know, way things are going lately, some of us may go back to that. I know a few that have been trying in our rural area, which has quite a few Amish folks.
Cool place. Pretty big too! I imagine when it was 1st built, that road out there didn't exist, or if it did, horses and buggy's used it. I wouldn't want to accidentally walk through that upstairs door. That'd ruin the day, that much I know lol. Interesting historical site for sure. Thanks for the explore!!
The minute I saw that raised platform with the pretty balustrade, I wondered if there'd been a desk on it, overlooking the whole store. Stores like this were similar to saloons and small town railroad depots in the old days: places to keep in touch with what was going on in the neighborhood, almost as much as places of business. We vacationed in Wisconsin's northwoods from 1945 until my dad retired in 1971---when he and Mom bought a little cottage NOT on a lake. I used to love trips to the little country stores dotted all over the place. Mom would pick up perishables and necessities, such as bags of unsalted peanuts in the shell to feed the friendly chipmunks. I was just a yard ape at the time and could imitate their "Chook-chook" call to let them know I was there and ready to pass over the peanuts. We loved watching them switch them around to fill their cheeks, then scurry off with one in each cheek and one sticking out front. 'Course, I liked peanuts myself---up until a few years ago, when my mouth went all Plastic. Stay safe, everybody!
I'm love this place! It is still fixable I think! The store had all those shelvings where cool. The American Pickers would love them. Maybe two staircases because 2 different families lived or worked there. Great find Kappy. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.
Good morning and thank you Kappy for another informative and relaxing adventure..LOVE your voice btw! And now I watch...WoW! I'm really impressed by what once was! I would have loved to see this home/store when it was thriving. I imagine people coming for supplies in buckboards and on horseback. I imagine a home that was well taken care of and of the laughter of children filling it's space. I imagine the hopes and dreams, both financial and physically as a well defined unit..I imagine beauty as I imagine once upon a time. Thanks again Kappy..really LOVE this one!
That was wonderful! I love your videos!! They're all amazing, so well done and I love to see all these old beautiful houses! Thank you so much Take care, stay safe and Blessings to you and all!
Holy shit! I know where this place is, it's in a small hole in the wall place called Wildwood. My friends and I used to ride ATVs on an old railroad track path that ran right behind this place. Amazed it's in as good shape as it is after all these years, it's been abandoned for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, it will likely never be restored or see its former glory again, as the county is very rural and not a lot of Revenue to support a restoration. Also really no one in the area with the money and dedication to take on such a project. I have a few ideas on what I would do with it if I had the money, but if BS were money I'd be a millionaire. Too bad I didn't know you were going to be in the area, would have been nice to meet you. Like your videos.
Rosie’s store was down the street from my Grammie’s house in Wilkes Barre. The downstairs was the store and the family lived upstairs. She still had penny candy in the early 70’s. I loved going down there! I wonder if the upstairs portion of your house was either for storage or maybe lodgers.
Thank you so much for the tour of this wonderful old general store and living area. It is a shame that it can not be restored. It reminds me of some of the general stores that are still open in northern New England! The "interesting looking thing" at 8:00 in the video is what is left of an old gas light fixture, apparently the house/store had gas light fixtures before electricity... Again, Thank you this video, great counters and shelving with drawers in the store part!!
Yes! That’s what I thought also! I lived in an 1800’s farmhouse that was off grid and still is! We used gas lights in all the rooms! It was pretty cool!
Wow. Great find! There used to be stores like this all over. We had one north of our house and about 5 miles south. Our neighbor actually had one in between those back in the 30s. The only one left was torn down and replaced with a more modern one in the 80s. Two of them were pretty similar to this. Wow that brings back memories. Old Coke boxes with sliding doors and creaky wooden floors. The largest was a grocery store/feed/everything else store that burned down while it was still operating again in the 80s. I agree with the boarding house comment. That’s a big place! There are prob photos and info about this place close by. Maybe in a restaurant or junk shop. Thanks so much for sharing. ❤️
Absolutely will share the old photos if I’m able to find any on this place, I talked to a neighbor and they said it’s been empty since atleast the 90’s when they moved in. Thank you for watching!
Oh man what a cool old place. It took me twice as long to watch it as I was teaching my son how it used to be. So much history. Thanks Kappy thank you- thank you
👍Only a shell of what it use to be. I’ve been in those stores, seen the shelves packed w/ goods & still remember my visits as a child. Thanks for sharing👍✌️
OH MY GOD!! I live in this area and I’ve always wondered what was in there. I never stopped by because cops sit at the tire store across from it quite often.
Must of been a place of beauty when it was loved and lived in . Must of been a pretty view from the upstairs balcony. I think that thing on the wall may of been from a gas light . Thank you for showing us this throw back to the past . Could you imagine this as a bustling store for the local area where everyone came to get everything from a stove to fabric for making new outfits. Sad , sad , sad history is left to just rot like this . Someone watching this video if you live in the area should try to buy this place up and perhaps restore to its former glory.
For “the olden days,” that was a huge store! They must have carried a little bit of everything. Most of the old stores were quite small. Four people inside and the place was overcrowded. This was really interesting. Thanks for taking us along.
kappy, thank you for taking us w/you...at 7:59, I think that is a gas light connection like ferd sekoll said. I know before electricity most homes had them & even our streetlights on public streets were tended by a gas lighter who would later turn them off when daylight came
Wow! It's huge! Imagine the stories those walls could tell! That fixture on wall, was it an old oil lamp? The store area reminds me of "Little House on the Prairie" or "The Walton's" stores!
Just came across this brings back memories when I was kid my grandparents had a country store that they lived above for over 50 years it was my favorite place to go God I miss it
We have a similar building nearby in Wisconsin. The stores in that time frame almost always featured a meeting room/dance hall on the second floor above the store, with the owner's house a separate part of the home. The stairway out of the back of the upstairs was usually an exit/entrance. The big stair landing was for show usually. A beautiful place- thank you for filming it. (And I hope someone fixes it up!)
Hopefully some kid (s) lived there, and they got to enjoy penny candy from their family owned store! Those screen door's had REAL metal screen in them!
Oh how sad. Just imagine how wonderful it must have been when it was used! It reminds me of the Waltons General Store with Ike or even Little House on the Prairie. I wish someone would restore it. Thank you for sharing.
back then, kitchens were in the back of the house to keep the heat of the wood burning stove away from the rest of the house in summer time... sometimes they even had a extra summer kitchen for same reason..
As a park ranger in the 70's, one of my favorite stops for lunch was Elsie Storie's Grocery: a slab of "hoop cheese", a half inch slab of bologna, and two slices of Sunbeam bread slathered with mayonnaise - all washed down with an RC Cola: Heaven!
It's a shame that balogny does not taste as good as it did back in the day. Now it's so filled with sodium, it's one of the foods that I should avoid with my hypertension.
That sounds like heaven!
Sounds like my mom 😁
@@asafaust8869 I'm having trouble finding good food I can enjoy with my hypertension. Too much sodium in EVERYTHING.
Amen! Here I East Tennessee, you can still find a few of those old time general stores and get that sort roof wonderful lunch. You've made me hungry! Wonder what's in the fridge?
This place has historic interest to the town it is in and should be restored. Schools could take the kids on class trips to learn what life was like at the turn of the 20th century.
Exactly Right..
Too too much money to restore.
Look how square and symmetrical things are good carpenters back then I am a disaster
Tell what it was like for the people benefiting from the fruits of other people's pain, or tell what it was like for the slaves that had to endure all that pain
@@jeweltaylor33 What a miserable person you must be. We get indoctrinated with the fabricated version of history for the most part. It's worse today because there happens to be an agenda playing out.
Kappy, I know this place! I took many photos of it! It was a train station, (believe it or not, there was a rail line that ran behind there in the late 1800's early 1900's) store, boarding house, and I heard a bakery in the 70's! So glad you checked it out !!!!
So is the stairs from the store, part of the store? Being it has two stairs leading to two separate parts of the house.
Absolutely wonderful!! Made my day.. after hearing bad news all over the world... just thinking how life was so pleasant not so long ago.. love to all from Italy 🇮🇹
Tania beyond, love to you my sister in Italy. Be safe
@@ravenraven966 thanx♥️
Tania beyond love you you Italians too💕❤️
@@Wolfietherrat thank you Claudette 🤗
Kap, the reason there is two separate 2nd story areas is the area above the store was for store inventory. The big landing in the stair would have had the store keepers desk and provided a vantage point to watch the store, as well as keep the store accounts out of the way of "store traffic" (ie prying eyes, kids, etc). The outside staircase to the second story allowed inventory delivery straight to the upper room.
The house part was totally separate living quarters, though there was a bathroom close to the store for easy access.
I would like to see photos of this in its prime, love these old houses.
You did a great job with the video. You took your time and moved smoothly. You didn't jerk the camera. It was easy to focus. You presented a larger view, so a person could really grasp what each room looked. Thank you for a job well done.
It looked like the store had two levels for shopping or storage. There was shelves on the second floor of the store. Loved the shelves with the drawers in the store. Picturing little kids shopping with mom and staring at lolipops in a jar. Went to Telico Lake on a day trip in East Tennessee. There was a general store still operating. It had double screen doors at entrance. Wide wood plank floors and counters that went length of store. Only had necessities for the locals. Iron skillets, overalls, boots, oil lamps and tools. There was a little section of canned goods. Loved thinking of the slower times. Never missing a chance to say hi to a neibors and tell tall tales.Thanks for sharing
Don't know about "slower"---- most had to toil from sunup to sundown. There was probably little 'slowing down'. In the late 1800's: people gardened, canned, sewed their own clothes, made their own soap, washed clothes in a tub with a wash board, raised and slaughtered farm animals... barely a moment's rest except on "the Lord's Day."
@@gordon3186 Gordon, your so right. Our ancestors did work hard. When I lived in East Tennessee some folks were still doing some of those things. That was in the eighties. I loved those people. What I meant by slower times is they were not in such a hurry. Their entertainment is sitting on the porch drinking sweet tea and telling stories. I don't know how many people invited me in for supper. It always seemed the bowls were bottomless. I hold those memories. Or were you just funning me ? Either way thanks for the response. Be safe.
I remember going to one of these stores as a young fella. At the back there was a grille where
you could get a hamburger for a dime. They were REALLY good. Years later, the cook told me
that they took stale bread and extra meat cuts that were ground up together & made those delicious
burgers. Bet a modern food inspector would have fainted over the process....LOL
That had to be cool! I remember things like that to! The sort of good old days! I can remember in junior high walking across the street to this little hamburger joint where burgers were $0.50 and Fries were a quarter. Going back even further my papa used to take me to McDonald's when it was still a relatively new place to eat, hamburgers were a dime, and Fries were only $0.07. Loved those Burgers and Fries!
@@ellenrichardson8701 We didn't get a McDonald's in my home town until the late 1950's and it was amazing. Kids today don't believe me that in those days, you could drive up there, get in line, order (for me and my buddies, anyway) three hamburgers, fries, and either a shake or a soft drink---19 cents each! We didn't have Sales Tax yet, so you handed the clerk a buck and he/she gave you a nickel's change. "Course, the Minimum Wage then was $1.10/hr. Still, as my girlfriend's younger brother said, "Those 'burgers are so bad you can get addicted to them. You can't even remove the stupid dill pickle or it'd ruin the whole affect!" I still prefer to occasionally "Dine in simple elegance at Mickey Dee's." I actually get two or three and an order of fries in a sack, to bring home. I keep a 12-pack of Coke in the 'frige (gotta have my caffeine and sugar fix).
@@oldenweery7510 that is a cool story! Better you enjoy your pop then alcohol! Sometimes I wish we could return to those so-called olden days! Life was a wee bit simpler then don't you agree?
@@ellenrichardson8701 I used to kid my mom about "Our Terrible Upbringing"---with my arm around her and pressing my cheek against hers. She and Dad made all holidays special, including birthdays, and even "ordinary" summer Sundays, when Mom would somehow coordinate with all the women in the family so we'd all show up for picnics at various nearby parks and beaches. Summer vacations were planned adventures, a couple of evenings getting ready, then leaving home, usually toward the "Northwoods." They made Christmas completely magical and I and my two brothers all became infected with the same lovely "disease." We raised our kids with the same magic, but sadly, I don't think the various nieces and nephews carried on the same, so I guess the magic was distilled away to nothing. (I still decorate a Christmas tree every year---and my neighbors in our Senior Apartment Building start to ask about it around Thanksgiving.) Stay safe!
yes great memories people know days just don't get it these places were not like the big box stores like Walmart or Safeway
Great explore Kappy, must've been a neat place back in its day,, i may be wrong but i think the object you see at the 8:00 mark is, the remnants of a Gaslight fixture, which really tells the age of the building,, you see them a lot in older city buildings, so yeah definitely early 1800's
Wow!!! This place screams of more simple times. I can see local ladies standing at the counter getting all the town gossip from the proprietor. Men sitting on the porch and children running around. Love the electric wires tacked to the ceiling. Simple times indeed.
Bet, it was a Lovely old place, with family living and working together..If Only Walls Could Talk...
Right. It would appear that the parents and their adult child with spouse lived there. They just "added on" and kept it going... Sadly, the chains crowded out the mom & pop stores. Automobiles, Sears & Roebuck, highways, etc..
@@josephdockemeyer6782 Exactly Right..
Your camera work is brilliant it feels like we are walking around with you.
Really big place, bet it was a really great store with lots of supplies in it's day. Thanks Kappy
Agreed! & such a unique staircase! Thank you for watching!!
Oh I’d love to see a vintage photo of that store when it was still in operation! What a cool place !
What an awesome place! Makes you want to go back in time and see everyday life in full swing there. Sorta makes me think of Ike's General Store on The Waltons. Looks very sturdy built. Thank you so much for this unique upload!
I love the way you narrate... It is so interesting to hear you talk 🙂
Great find, Kappy! Staircase was incredible. Floor above store was probably storeroom. Similar place was across road from us as I was growing up. Man was a butcher so always had fresh meat. True general store. Could get everything from meat to cheese to sewing notions. They lived above the store. Great memories!
Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and healthy!!
If I had the money, I’d like to fix that old place up just like it was new.
Yes!
Oh no kidding
me too
Same here!
I can do the flooring and any masonry lol
I would’ve love to have seen that when they first built it I bet it was beautiful my grandfather own something like that in Mississippi and then when the depression hit he lost everything
My kinda place to watch being explored without a doubt! Thank you 😊
Even though falling in on itself, it is still beautiful seeing these homes from late 1800s to probably the 40's. I watch every video you put out :) Thank you for sharing.
Bet it was a beautiful place at one time. Interesting architecture..I remember houses that were little stores when I was little in the sixties.. Gramma would send me up to the Corner Store to get her a cream soda and for me 7-up lol
This is one of my favorites. What a great house. Restored it would make the most amazing antique store/ home. the design of this house was so interesting.
Lumber,and animal feed was sold upstairs.A door was there to outside to lower goods to truck below.
Those store counters are awesome, too bad one couldn't save them and repurpose them. Sad to see them go like that.
The store looks like one in "Little house on the prairie"! I could see bolts of fabric and ribbon on shelves.Bags of seed and a barrel of pickles.Probably a checker board on a table. Very cool!
I can see that too!! I wish I had a Time Machine ❤🙂🏡
Was thinking exact same thing
What a great place this must have been. I’ll bet there was a potbelly stove in the middle of that general store part connected to the chimney. Wish we still had nice laid back general stores like this where you could sit on the porch and chat awhile.
Completely agreed! The stove would’ve kept the store warm on chilly winter Days! Thank you for watching !
This is a fantastic find, Kappy. Great job 👍 You can't find the places like this anymore.
My opinion, the house came first then the store. The first upstairs, I think was part of the store. Like maybe that's where they kept the linens, dry goods and other household items.
Thanks for this. I love it
It was a train station and boarding house first.
Out of all of your videos this one is one of my most favorites. I remember places like this when I was a kid. Think of the history. Likely all family run. Thank you
I remember a wonderful store like this near my grandmother's house. The squeaky front screen door with a sign that advertised Grape Nehi sodypop. Yes, I can remember the smell of it also. One of the best sounds was walking on those old wooden floors. Nothing like it today. Great memories. Thanks Kappy! Ya did good! You could dig a lot of treasure outside with a metal detector.
I'd bet it was beautiful back in its day. It's a shame it's gone to waste. Thanks for sharing.
I love it! I hate to see the old place decay and vanish, it was such a nice building at one time, and I'll bet lots of people shopped at the general store. The old counters in the store are restorable, someone would love to have them in their farm style home, at least I would. The kitchen sink was in very good condition. Thanks for sharing. Have a great week. 🙂🏡
This is what Drucker's Store looked like on the 1960s TV show Green Acres💞
lol yea it did love from NC
yes I been to places like this as a kids buying candy and pop
You are my wife...goodbye City Life, Green acres here we come, loved that show🙂❣
Sad that this store and house. Is so deteriorated. But I still enjoyed the history. Shame that its not restored .Thank you for sharing your video. Stay safe and well.
That was a cool old store and home. Thanks again!! 👍
Absolutely amazing !!! A piece of history brought to life through your lens !!! Thank you !!!
Love this. That general store brought back so many memories of the “mom and pop” shops that were in every neighborhood in the 1950s and 60s. Too bad it’s so far gone to restore.
Thank you for another great video of a historical place.
Enjoyable! Before the early 1900s most people were self-employed having their business in their house much better!
Never know, way things are going lately, some of us may go back to that. I know a few that have been trying in our rural area, which has quite a few Amish folks.
@Cheri Merchant Me too!
Jennifer Miller Yep! Before government over-regulation.
@@davek5027 Government overregulation put the little guys out of business, among other things not good.
I love scouting old places. I did it for years. Not so much now, but love touring with you. Thank you dear one.
One of my favorites. I would love to have the store room fittings . The big open room could have been used for dances and other community events
Cool place. Pretty big too! I imagine when it was 1st built, that road out there didn't exist, or if it did, horses and buggy's used it. I wouldn't want to accidentally walk through that upstairs door. That'd ruin the day, that much I know lol. Interesting historical site for sure. Thanks for the explore!!
For some reason, I really like this house. I think it’s awesome. I would love to fix it and live in it.
The minute I saw that raised platform with the pretty balustrade, I wondered if there'd been a desk on it, overlooking the whole store. Stores like this were similar to saloons and small town railroad depots in the old days: places to keep in touch with what was going on in the neighborhood, almost as much as places of business. We vacationed in Wisconsin's northwoods from 1945 until my dad retired in 1971---when he and Mom bought a little cottage NOT on a lake. I used to love trips to the little country stores dotted all over the place. Mom would pick up perishables and necessities, such as bags of unsalted peanuts in the shell to feed the friendly chipmunks. I was just a yard ape at the time and could imitate their "Chook-chook" call to let them know I was there and ready to pass over the peanuts. We loved watching them switch them around to fill their cheeks, then scurry off with one in each cheek and one sticking out front. 'Course, I liked peanuts myself---up until a few years ago, when my mouth went all Plastic. Stay safe, everybody!
I'm love this place! It is still fixable I think! The store had all those shelvings where cool. The American Pickers would love them. Maybe two staircases because 2 different families lived or worked there. Great find Kappy. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.
Love love love the stairs / landing! Lovely place. Be safe!
Good morning and thank you Kappy for another informative and relaxing adventure..LOVE your voice btw! And now I watch...WoW! I'm really impressed by what once was! I would have loved to see this home/store when it was thriving. I imagine people coming for supplies in buckboards and on horseback. I imagine a home that was well taken care of and of the laughter of children filling it's space. I imagine the hopes and dreams, both financial and physically as a well defined unit..I imagine beauty as I imagine once upon a time. Thanks again Kappy..really LOVE this one!
Barbara Chase you are too kind! Thank you very much for watching and the nice words!
@@urbanexploringwithkappy1773 You're ever so welcome!
@@urbanexploringwithkappy1773 How do you know this was Built-in 1800s
Wow beautiful old store/house❤️😍❤️
That place would have been grand one day with the store and separate living quarters. What a wonderful way to live. Have a great day
Very cool find!! Thanks so much for sharing!!😊❤
That was wonderful! I love your videos!! They're all amazing, so well done and I love to see all these old beautiful houses! Thank you so much Take care, stay safe and Blessings to you and all!
Holy shit! I know where this place is, it's in a small hole in the wall place called Wildwood. My friends and I used to ride ATVs on an old railroad track path that ran right behind this place. Amazed it's in as good shape as it is after all these years, it's been abandoned for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, it will likely never be restored or see its former glory again, as the county is very rural and not a lot of Revenue to support a restoration. Also really no one in the area with the money and dedication to take on such a project. I have a few ideas on what I would do with it if I had the money, but if BS were money I'd be a millionaire. Too bad I didn't know you were going to be in the area, would have been nice to meet you. Like your videos.
I know it too! Lived in area many years. Was a train station, store, boarding house, and I was told, bakery in the '70's.
Rosie’s store was down the street from my Grammie’s house in Wilkes Barre. The downstairs was the store and the family lived upstairs. She still had penny candy in the early 70’s. I loved going down there! I wonder if the upstairs portion of your house was either for storage or maybe lodgers.
This is So Awesome! Thanks for the Tour!
Thank you so much for the tour of this wonderful old general store and living area. It is a shame that it can not be restored. It reminds me of some of the general stores that are still open in northern New England! The "interesting looking thing" at 8:00 in the video is what is left of an old gas light fixture, apparently the house/store had gas light fixtures before electricity... Again, Thank you this video, great counters and shelving with drawers in the store part!!
Yes! That’s what I thought also! I lived in an 1800’s farmhouse that was off grid and still is! We used gas lights in all the rooms! It was pretty cool!
Thank you for beautifully describing the old house and general store. We don’t have anything like it in 🇬🇧 UK. Loved it xx
You are so lucky to see these places.I love old stores and such!
I like your narration style. Well done.
Thank you very much!!
Wow. Great find! There used to be stores like this all over. We had one north of our house and about 5 miles south. Our neighbor actually had one in between those back in the 30s. The only one left was torn down and replaced with a more modern one in the 80s. Two of them were pretty similar to this. Wow that brings back memories. Old Coke boxes with sliding doors and creaky wooden floors. The largest was a grocery store/feed/everything else store that burned down while it was still operating again in the 80s. I agree with the boarding house comment. That’s a big place! There are prob photos and info about this place close by. Maybe in a restaurant or junk shop. Thanks so much for sharing. ❤️
Absolutely will share the old photos if I’m able to find any on this place, I talked to a neighbor and they said it’s been empty since atleast the 90’s when they moved in. Thank you for watching!
Oh man what a cool old place. It took me twice as long to watch it as I was teaching my son how it used to be. So much history. Thanks Kappy thank you- thank you
Thank you very much for the kind words and watching! (: I really appreciate it! Stay safe!
Wow! Amazing that the tub and toilet upstairs hadn't fallen through the floor! ❤️
It’s always been my dream to have a General Store like this!!
Great find, awesome video! Thank you!
I like that you take your time videoing,most are so fast you can not really enjoy.....thank you
👍Only a shell of what it use to be.
I’ve been in those stores, seen the shelves packed w/ goods & still remember my visits as a child.
Thanks for sharing👍✌️
i also miss little stores in the neighborhood...what good times those were
Love love love finding old homesteads!! ROAD TRIP !!
OH MY GOD!! I live in this area and I’ve always wondered what was in there. I never stopped by because cops sit at the tire store across from it quite often.
Must of been a place of beauty when it was loved and lived in . Must of been a pretty view from the upstairs balcony.
I think that thing on the wall may of been from a gas light .
Thank you for showing us this throw back to the past . Could you imagine this as a bustling store for the local area where everyone came to get everything from a stove to fabric for making new outfits. Sad , sad , sad history is left to just rot like this .
Someone watching this video if you live in the area should try to buy this place up and perhaps restore to its former glory.
Wow! What a amazing place! Another excellent video kappy.
Whoa. Huge house. Loved the store that was also inside the house. Very great history. Thank you so much for the share
I could just see dry goods on the shelves and fabric laid out for sewing. Candy jars on the counter. Just Awsome!
GM from Texas. Thank you sharing. !
For “the olden days,” that was a huge store! They must have carried a little bit of everything. Most of the old stores were quite small. Four people inside and the place was overcrowded. This was really interesting. Thanks for taking us along.
Would of loved seeing this in its prime .. love the landing of staircase and those cabinets !!
The owner's took great responsibility, left it clean.
Nice to see!
I really liked the store and the staircase and landing portion of this home.
It must have been fantastic when new. Thank you.
Just when I thought I had viewed all your videos these cool explores keep popping up!
Very beautiful indeed!🌞
Thank you for watching! I loved the staircase landing!
I like to see old houses and stores
I just love stories of the 1800 and 1900
kappy, thank you for taking us w/you...at 7:59, I think that is a gas light connection like ferd sekoll said. I know before electricity most homes had them & even our streetlights on public streets were tended by a gas lighter who would later turn them off when daylight came
Love to know its history . Thank you for showing it .
Wow! It's huge! Imagine the stories those walls could tell! That fixture on wall, was it an old oil lamp? The store area reminds me of "Little House on the Prairie" or "The Walton's" stores!
A great video!! Thanks Kappy👍😊🙋🧚🌟🧜
Were there ever a place that shouldn't be rotting away and lost to time, this is it.
I will second that. Such a wasteful shame. Should be restored.
I love how you qote that you should try writing poetry .
Very true indeed!!
Just came across this brings back memories when I was kid my grandparents had a country store that they lived above for over 50 years it was my favorite place to go God I miss it
Great find! I would love to see pictures of this place when it was in it's heyday! Just love the layout. So pretty. Made my day. Thank you.
This was great..... Thanks for the adventure
It like 1 on little house the Olson owen pretty to see 1 that look a lot like it ty for sharing
Excellent find. An old gas light in that bedroom on the 2nd floor. I will bet a lot of summer nights were spent on that porch.
We have a similar building nearby in Wisconsin. The stores in that time frame almost always featured a meeting room/dance hall on the second floor above the store, with the owner's house a separate part of the home. The stairway out of the back of the upstairs was usually an exit/entrance. The big stair landing was for show usually. A beautiful place- thank you for filming it. (And I hope someone fixes it up!)
The town might have pictures of this when it was a store
Wow, great find, that store is amazing!
Hopefully some kid (s) lived there, and they got to enjoy penny candy from their family owned store! Those screen door's had REAL metal screen in them!
Can just imagine it haha! Thank you very much for watching!
And what do you think the kids of the slaves got to enjoy, cant even amagin
jewel taylor no slaves involved, this place was built in the 1880’s. Just hardworking people.
@@jeweltaylor33 What are you even talking about, who said anything about slaves??
Oh how sad. Just imagine how wonderful it must have been when it was used! It reminds me of the Waltons General Store with Ike or even Little House on the Prairie. I wish someone would restore it. Thank you for sharing.
Super nice. I can just picture it the way it was
back then, kitchens were in the back of the house to keep the heat of the wood burning stove away from the rest of the house in summer time... sometimes they even had a extra summer kitchen for same reason..
Interesting find. Bet that street wasn't that busy back then. Those old country stores are so cool when you can find one still in operation.
What a great place! Love the store. My dad is from Missouri and his mother ran a store on bottom and they lived up top.