A Family Picture

Back Row: Grandmother Middle Row: Aunt Janet, Aunt Sis, Uncle Winston, Mom Front Row: Uncle Joe

A Visit To The Corner Store

Whenever we would come to visit our Grandparents in Memphis we would always find a way to need to go to the Corner Store. It was called Mrs. Black's Corner Store.

It was on the corner of National and Faxon and the door was right in the corner of the street. You had to step up three steps to get into the store and she had every kind of candy and soda's that a kid would love.

We lived in a small town and our parents family had a Grocery Store and a Furniture Store but this was nothing to compare with this Corner Store.

The town that we lived in only had sidewalks in the downtown area, but the sidewalks in Memphis were as wide as some of our streets back home. I will never forget when they replaced the utility poles on National Ave. and replaced them with forty foot metal poles.

In our town we hardly ever heard a fire or police siren but at our Grandparents it wasn't unusual to hear them during the night.

One day we went to the Corner Store with our Grand Dad and he played a game with us at the store. We all got ourselves a six inch Coke Cola and held it in our hands and then Grand Dad said, "Turn your bottle over to the bottom and see where your coke was made. The one with the city that is the farthest away from Memphis gets to choose a small bag of candy for themselves. My sister Susan's said Tupelo, my brother's said Birmingham, my Grand Dad's said Little Rock and mine said, Houston, TX.

I was so happy on the way home with my bag of candy and The Corner Store.