Note*:  The lady on left was my grandmother's aunt; her mother's sister. The pic reads on the back "Aunt Effie and Uncle George Cooley's Store; Eva worked for them, and a customer." 

Submitted by Ann Westbrook Radcliff

Note**:  Daddy was a rural Mail Carrier .  When I was a child,  he had the Star Route which went thru Fancy and Palmersville Highway area.  He would take me with him and I loved stopping at those old stores.  They always had a great dog laying on the porch and a pot bellied stove inside with men sitting around it or a small table, playing checkers.  Daddy would sit me on the counter or the cold drink box and everyone make over me.  I felt like a princess.  Daddy would stop along the route and visit and brought people things like their medicine from town.  In return, Daddy would come home, every day in the summer, with bushels of peas, corn, peaches, you name it.  I hated that part because who want to shell lima beans, yuck.  We would stop on the route to pick damsons (plums) off the side of the road or stop when we saw a fox and Daddy would make them stand on their hind legs and look at us by whistling.......Ann