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Friday, November 18, 2011

The Oliveburg Store

Not far from Manchester and Ashland, Ohio is a general store in a little village called Olivesburg. Olivesburg is little more than a crossroads these days although at one time, according to Wikipedia, dynamite may have been produced there.

The store, founded around 1840 offers excellent ice cream, a room full of antiques and all kinds of kitchen gadgetry, but it was the baking section that got my attention. Never have I seen so many kinds of cake toppings in one place.



 My friend Donna was fascinated with something else:


Now that's a rolling pin!

I came home with a couple tubs of cake toppings to use at Christmas, and a couple bottles of local wine. Small stores like this one can be the backbone of a community, and make an interesting place to stop when traveling too.

I remember one such store not far from my first house, in a tiny community called Buckhall in Virginia. We stopped there for gas, milk, bread, chicken feed and just conversation with the store owners. I wonder if the store is still there; given the growth in that region it has probably long since disappeared or has morphed into a convenience store--and I bet there is no chicken feed for sale any more.

Thank goodness there are still places like Olivesburg, where ice cream, gasoline, milk, gifts, cheese, plumbing and baking supplies, and all sorts of other notions are still sold in an eclectic mix in a store with wood floors and shelving and smiling friendly clerks. 

5 comments:

  1. Granny Sue: There use to be a great little General store in the "town" (crossroads) of Marr Ohio that I went to a time or two.

    And in my neck of the woods the colloquial name for a rolling pin like the one your friend Donna is holding is a "Saturday night special."

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  2. I like that name, Carolyn! Donna called it a "husband tamer" but I expect it would work as well on either sex :) Kidding, of course.

    I don't know where Marr is but I'll look it up. I might be passing by there sometime.

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  3. Show that rolling pin pic to Larry...tell him you know where to get another if he gets out of line!

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  4. Good idea, Warren. But ya know, I already own a half-dozen of them and he doesn't seem to pay any mind to them :)

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  5. That was a nice treat seeing the inside of that store, and that rolling pen looks quite heavy.

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