{"id":1217,"date":"2020-09-19T03:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T08:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2020-09-19T03:26:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T08:26:54","slug":"mule-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/mule-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mule Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><big><big>Mule Day in Weakley County<\/big><\/big><br \/>by Jeannie Travis<\/div>\n<p><br \/>In my little hometown, Dresden, TN. there were two &#8216;Hitch yards&#8217; where folks could tie up their buggies , riding horses or wagons and go up a sidewalk between buildings to get to the store fronts&#8230;There was no shade in the one Daddy used, but it was on the side of town he shopped at.<br \/><br \/>Another memory from this time&#8230;you could go back to the meat market area of the grocery store and buy bologna, crackers, and Hoop cheese to make a cheap lunch. The butcher would tear off a big piece of paper and lay out your food on it. I guess we were not &#8216;pore&#8217; enough for Daddy to have to take a lunch and go eat at the wagon. Only my brothers were allowed to go to town with Daddy on Mule Day\/First Monday to do the<br \/>trading. So we could only envision the delicious boughten lunch they told us about. What a treat ! <br \/><br \/>I don&#8217;t know how much this lunch cost, but you could get a big RC Cola and a Moon pie for 10 cents. Big candy bars were a nickel, ditto a bag of potato chips or an ice cream cone or Wonder bar. Coke floats were high though &#8211; 10 cents and were a rare treat at the drug store. It cost 12 or 13 cents to go to the &#8216;show&#8217; and you could stay in there all day if you wanted to. Popcorn was probably a nickle&#8230;..Happy memories!\u00a0 Jeannie T<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mule Day in Weakley Countyby Jeannie Travis In my little hometown, Dresden, TN. there were two &#8216;Hitch yards&#8217; where folks could tie up their buggies , riding horses or wagons and go up a sidewalk between buildings to get to the store fronts&#8230;There was no shade in the one Daddy used, but it was on <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/mule-day\/\" class=\"read-more inline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 19, 2020","modified":"Updated on September 19, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 19, 2020 3:26 am","modified":"Updated on September 19, 2020 3:26 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}