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Oh my, please don't lose that fabulous country store. It's a piece of history that can never be replaced. Blessings from Michigan. Could someone take up donations to help restore it?

P. S. My heart flutters to hear grown men call their seniors "Mr." . Thank you for keeping that tradition of respect alive.

Why in this world does Someone not renovate and open this place up as a museum of precious history . This is magnificent!

This brings back good memories from my childhood. I'm 75 years old, and my Mother would pull me in a wagon about once a week to a store like that, though it was smaller, and she would pull that wagon uphill to home, with her purchases and bartered goods. I had to walk on the way home, uphill, about 2 miles. Thank you for bringing those memories back to me.

That old store is a treasure, hopefully a new roof can be put on it before it is totally gone, love it!

Wouldn't it be wonderful if this historic building was renovated/restored and put back into use !!!!

The man said he bought the store to keep it in the family but looks like its not being taken care of won't last long like that.

We really enjoyed the history lesson Dan. What a awesome piece of Georgia history. I sure wish someone would try to put a roof on it and try to preserve it! Thanks Robert for sharing with us!

Wonderful Building. So glad it's still in the Family. Hopefully they continue to care for it. Great History right there.

I love seeing these historic stores and stories.

It is always interesting to see these remnants of life as it once was. One can imagine and dream. It has a grounding affect on me, but also saddens me. Grasping at the "use to be" that you wish were now. It seems Dan's father certainly felt the times slipping away. I am impressed he built his own copy of the store. It is more obvious than ever that history runs through Dan's veins. Great tour, facts and reminiscing. Enjoyed this one greatly! 😊

I wish the owner would put some upkeep into it, what a shame...

I find this so sad. I can't help but feel an emptiness & sadness whenever I see old buildings & businesses that have been left abandoned. It's a reminder & a longing for the times that have passed & wishing they never had to fade away & would somehow return. Yet you know they never will.

Fascinating! It should be preserved ! It could be used as so many things; a community center for neighborhood activities, maybe .Wonder why the tin is still missing off the roof? If it is cost, maybe someone could start a drive before it all rots away from rain getting in. Maybe even some channel viewers would contribute !

Has the owner thought about donating it to Westville? I haven't visited Westville since it moved from Lumpkin, but the store would fit in nicely with the other buildings. It would be a shame to lose it. Very interesting video, loved watching it!

Omagosh I found this channel because I love history! Between graveyard personal histories and these wonderful moments, thanku!

Love that old General Store. I hope the holes in the roof can be covered up so the inside doesn't rot more. This is a great piece of history.

Loved this episode! What a wonder that the building still stands and seems mostly stable.

Yes, thank you Mr Warden for letting Dan and Robert document this store..this was probably the best video and history lesson. So sweet and so sad. The store reminded me of when I'd go see my gma and us kids would head to the ole 5 and dime store. Great video thanks!!!!!

Just Wow! OMG if those old screen doors could talk. Thanks Sir Robert & Dan the Historian for sharing! Growing up had 3 old stores in N. Ga.. One on my grandfather's farm, a log cabin w/wood shingles that my cousins still have the bookkeeping ledger of what people owed & paid. It was then turned into a smokehouse for curing the hams from hog killings. Another more modern store opened in the 40's & had a glass top gas pump & green kerosene container you turned a handle to pump & YES COLONIAL BREAD SIGN ON SCREEN DOOR. Another store was on a private lake only open during spring/summer/fall. It sold 5 cent candy bars, cokes & peanuts, bait & rented fishing boats. Sunkist orange filled with peanuts so good. We bet on who got the coke bottle w/the farthest away bottling plant name on the bottom of bottle. We put a hornet's nest in lake store one winter thinking it was empty & went to open store in spring & it was filled with hornets. Great memories, good times.

That store is in amazing condition. Thank you and the owner for hosting this visit. Much appreciated.

Wish someone would repair and preserve this old store. This was so enlightening thanks mr. Dan Robert and the other gentleman mr. Jack warden who owns this remarkable store.

I grew up in the1950s in SE Arkansas and went to a general store like this. I remember the RC Cola ads, Colonial Bread, and really delicious lemon flavored cookies in a large jar on the counter. I can't t remember the name of the cookies. Candy bars were a nickel. Simpler times. Thank you for sharing the old store and the memories. Hopefully, someone will restore this gem.

I love history and what we are never shown is the true craftsmanship, the sense of community and the all around kindness that disappeared when they automated and consolidated everything. I think as our country becomes more automated with technology we are going to have a break away society who go back to this way of living because people are lonely and unhappy in today’s society. In our state most people have left the cities and our old mining towns are starting to come alive again and I think it’s beautiful. Thank you for sharing, my husband and I always enjoy your videos.

This is such a wonderful piece of history.It should be a museum, and that could help keep it restored.Great video.Dan absolutely amazes me with his knowledge of history.He should write a book..

This store reminds me of the types of stores on "On Little House of the Prairie". What a fantastic video and lesson about how the stores were operated.

a roof woulda probably saved it another 50 years....so sad to see it left to rot. Thanks for the video, one of my favorites

We still have a few Old General stores in our county but not many,some of them burned...always had a wide front porch,sometimes painted benches,some wooden chairs. The old timers would sit and whittle and talk about local news and events,eat bologna or cheese on crackers and a cold drink,speak to the shoppers coming and going. You could,"Hey Jim haven't seen ya in a spell,how's the wife and kids?" Ah ,every bodies fair to middlin'" How you been? "Eh,pretty good,the rheumatize still bothers me when the rain comes on."😊Miss them old fellers,they stick them in the nursing homes now,terrible. The porch kept the comrades together...a sense of community and the generations united.😢 I liked this though,good memories. Love from Ky💞

Thank you gentlemen for the tour of an old General Store. I do hope someone finds a way to preserve that building. At least make the roof stop leaking.. Love these trips down memory lane

Remarkable! I could listen to these men for days.

I remember some of the old stores like this. The last one I remember going into was torn down a couple months ago. The post office was in the store. Got mail from store. A friend and I would pick up drink bottles and sell them to the owner of the store also. We then bought candy. It was put in what was called a penny brown bag. We go 2 cent for each bottle. The small pieces of various candy was called penny candy. Costing a penny. Those were some great times. We lived on a one lane brick road made from Augusta brick that came from GA. The name was stamped on each brick. The brick road is still used to this day. The brick road is in Ernul NC.

Thank you Mr. Warden for sharing this old general store. To see our history fade away is so sad.

What a wonderful tour. Such rich history. I could smell that place. I could see it full of products and people. Such a wonderful era behind us. I do wish it could be saved. Brought back and loaded with older companies products that are still available today. Maybe a museum? At the least an antique store. It's such a great piece of history. Thank you for taking us along gentlemen.

Robert thank you gentlemen for such a fascinating trip in time.👍👍👍🧡

Enjoy your videos and you bringing out the past history

This brought back so many memories of my childhood for me. My parents owned & operated a country store in West Virginia. By the 1950s my dad paid 2 cents for the soda bottles. In the evening several of the people from the community would come and just hang out. We called them the “loafers”. My father was also the postmaster. When the mail came in it was sorted and a couple of letter carriers would deliver it, one mail carrier delivered on horseback. Great video!

I just love this channel and these videos. I am a viewer from Wyoming who is a huge Western US/Wyoming history buff and it is amazing to learn about these very real, everyday historical experiences from the South. Keep it up!!

Too bad Mr warden didn't preserve the general store. It will take a lot of money now to restore it. Thanks Robert for showing it and keeping the history of it for all to see.

This is definitely a treasure. I think it was good for you guys to meet with the owner so he could see that people care and maybe he will understand the importance of restoring and/or improving the store or at least providing preventative measures and preserve history. Great video!

Wow, that store is worth saving! The well and all of it.

Please 🙏 I'm weeping, you must preserve this beautiful store from the past! I thankyou for sharing this history ❤️ 💜 Please don't let it be lost 🙏 Blessings to you and yours ✨️

Fascinating trivia about the mail train. ---That store would look like the one in the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou.

Oh my heart sings to hear the history and cries at the loss of something so central to those of our recent past. Thank you. I hope somehow the store and outbuildings can be saved from ruination. Thank you for the journey. Hope you all are well.

What a treasure. Thanks for taking us in to see a piece of lost history.

Dan is trully a 'treasure'.

I remember my father and uncles recall visiting my great Uncle’s store in Waycross, Ga and while I never got to see that store this gives me a much better idea of what it must have been like. Thank you for this video !!

Oh this is such an awesome video Robert! Thx for the history lesson and for Mr. Dan and the other nice gentleman who spoke of this store, what a treasure to walk thru history! Keep the learning coming my friend!

Dan, I could tell you were moved by that Store and the History described by you and Mr. Warden. IF the roof can be fixed, that would would go a long way to preserving it and maybe it could be restored...maybe. Cheers, Rik Spector

We did the same as kids. Go around looking for bottles to return to the store and go buy candy. Great memories.

Another outstanding Sidestep Adventure, in the wood of Georgia

Back in the mid-1960s, I worked one summer for a local meat packing company. A small local business. Monday to Wednesday, I worked, making hot dogs, baloney, honey loaf, pickle loaf, and block chili. Thursday and Fridays, I delivered those products to the small country general stores in southwestern Arkansas. None of these prepackaged products. Hot dogs and all lunch meat were sold in bulk. Baloney was a long tube that weighed about 15 pounds. Hot dog was sold in a box of 48. You could buy whatever you could afford and sign a ticket, pay it off every two weeks. These stores were the locals hangout and the local gossip and news. My wife grew up in a small community where there were only two stores, little country store that sold anything you needed. You could even buy 22 shells for a penny or 5 for a dime:-). If you wanted shotgun ammo old Johnny, would sell them to you for a nickle. I sure miss those old stores where you didn't worry about honesty or someone robbing you. Most places paid in cash.

Wow Robert speechless you really amaze us thankyou

That store should be restored. It’s too beautiful to be left to rot. Thanks for another great video.

Many thanks Mr. Warden, Dan & Robbie. Very cool old store & memories.

We had a store in Gibisonville, Hocking County, Ohio that was deemed one of the longest stores that was in existence. It was opened from 1853 to 2005. My husband's 3x Great Grandfather worked in it when he came back from the Civil War. I remember the old show cases went for thousands of dollars. There was the original butcher's block. Not sure what happened to that. There are photo's of the pot belly stove that sat in the middle of the floor with the town folks sitting around it playing checkers. It also had the post office, until they built a separate building next door. The store still stands, but is now a residence.

It’s a shame the trees around the store aren’t cleaned up and at least the roof replaced. What a great piece of history

Oh my Word ! Now I would Love to explore that Old General Store. Before everything had been taken out. What tales and Memories would that store have had.

Thank you for keeping it intact that was a good looking store.

I am Courtney Clardys mom. Thank you so much for continuing to give her her own memorial page for my patreon. I watch every video. This channel is amazing Robert! Dan is an invaluable part of this channel and for history in general!!!!

I love this wonderful video, you guys are amazing, keep these wonderful videos coming please.thank you so much..

Dan and Robert, I have been watching your shows for a couple weeks now and I feel as though I know you both. Thank you so very much for doing what you do. Please keep it up. We are lapping it up like kittens with a bowl of milk! God bless you both. Thank you Mr.Warden for inviting us in your families old General Store.

Loved it. Thank goodness for Dan and his knowledge of the past!

Amazing.... one of the most interesting videos.....Thanks for sharing

I would love to metal detect around that beautiful store. Please try to keep it for as long as you possibly can 👍🏻

Mr Dan is fascinating.

Makes you wish the old walls could talk and tell us stories of back then. It's a beautiful building even if old

The owner needs to Restore this store it would be very cool

Somone please save this store🥺💔 i absolutely love these types of buildings theyre time capsules and are important to our history

I really enjoyed this post. Learned from Dan about the old batteries in the store phones and in home phones for folks able to afford them. I have a soft spot for old country stores. Several family members ran stores. My parents did, too, in the early 50s. I don't remember a community well at ours nor at the one near our forever farm home. 🤔

It’s so sad to see it falling apart 😢

It's an amazing time capsule for a piece of history. Thanks for sharing.

My shop in Mountain City, Ga. has the same kind of wall paneling. Tongue and grove heart pine. You can't drive a nail in it, you have to drill and hole before you can get a nail to go in it. This shop was built in 1912. I've been doing business here for almost 40 years. This old building has a heart of its own. Late you night you can hear all kinds of sounds. I love this place. I've had people the wanted to buy it for the wood. They'll have to wait until i'm gone.

De Ja Vu, Robert. Bath, New Brunswick, Canada is where my Uncle John Mahoney operated "Mahoney's General Store" until a fire in the 1980s burned him out. It was very much the community store. Household essentials, clothing, hardware, small grocery, and a few novelties. You brought your items to a large center island cash/wrap to get rung out and your articles were wrapped and tied, nothing sacked.

What a cool place. Can’t believe the name still looks as good as day 1. Thank you for all the information on the batteries and the well. If walls could talk, right? Thank you for sharing 🙂

I am so glad Mr Warden was able to purchase the store that was a major part of preservation.Wonder where the owner lived who did he will the property to.I remember living by an old store like this .I remember my mom writting down on a piece of paper what she wanted.I remember one time he wrapped something in brown paper while walking home the neighborhood bully making fun of me .I learned years later it was a female product.I suppose such things were not to be seen or talked about.He had Three sisters he knew what I had ,A time when people were modest and children were clueless.

When you walked through that front door my mind went into flashback. Hearing the goings on from a lost era. Hopefully something can be done to at least keep it in a state of arrested decay.

I can remember taking soda bottle back to the store having enough for a coke candy bar an chips. Had to have six bottle in order to have enough money 😃 this is awesome

Thanks for sharing this with us. I remember as a kid the general store in our little area. So many memories. I do remember the pot belly stove we all sat around on cold winter days. And my Daddy going up every month to clear our bill. Times past that we long for as we get older. Thankyou again.

Interesting talk on what life was like so many years ago. Amazing the two gentlemen can speak on it.

Wow! Fantastic, Thanks a million for posting and the walk through history. I do hope you folks restore the place, and keep us posted along the way.

Fascinating video and information. Love the family oriented stories of history. Are there any plans to cut down the trees around the building allowing sunlight to help dry it?

I been with Sidestep Adventures from the beginning and you guys never fail to show us some wonderful history!

Wonderful video. And interesting because you had two men who knew something about it & their narration was excellent. My brother-in-law's great-grandfather had a restaurant in Nyack, NY turn of the century (1900). He was able to uncover some photographs of his great-grandfather standing outside the restaurant & newspaper clippings. I would hope these men could find some vintage pictures of Mr. Browning and his patrons by the store -- besides the one or two that were featured. There must be some pictures that neighbors have in boxes or antique stores in shoe boxes. It looked like such a cool building -- it must have been a very busy place. Probably ordered things for their customers from the Sears & Montgomery Ward catalogs too. I know that some General Stores' of that era also had a seamstress who might have worked in the backroom as a service -- sewing, and mending shirts, coats, and dresses so they could make extra money. Especially, if the store sold fabric. Please don't tear down that General Store. It would be a sin. That big white sign with Mr. Browning's name on it is shouting to keep the place alive.

Hi Robert, what a great video on the ghost town general store. It was big store at one time. We are so surprised that some of the great old building you and Dan find are still standing. Also wanted to give the other Robert a shout out on what a great time he also did as a stand in for you. It's so great you all care so much about the forgotten grave sites. Thanks for you and your staff for going back and cleaning up some of the sites. That is so cool

I wish someone would restore that store. It is a beautiful old building that needs some TLC. Have you ever seen the RM Brooks store in Rugby Tennessee? I see this old store and think it could be the same with a little love and attention given to it.

Wow! Great stories! I truly hope y'all can restore this beautiful store, and it's many wonderful memories..

What a beautiful little store! I'd love nothing more than to go see it for myself! It's so peaceful, so neat, so nice for it's age, & so full of history! I'd treasure that store & make it stays standing for as long as possible! I absolutely love it!❤️

This is great 👍, one of my favorites!!! I wish someone would have been able to take better care of it. With the roof opened up like that it will soon completely collapse. A Great piece of history that reminds me of the many many stores I remember just like it!!!!

I live in Georgia and belong to a local metal detecting club. We'd be happy to detect around the old building and return any finds to the family.

There were still stores around like this when I was a kid in the 60s. Good memories for sure. Cheers Terry

Thanks for the walk back in time

I grew up in Texas, and these general stores were everywhere. I can imagine riding up on my bike with friends, to go inside and get a Baby Ruth candy bar and RC cola. Then off to the creek to hang out.

Hopefully the area will get cleaned up and the building fixed,so it stays around for many many more years.

Thank you. I adore history.

I grew up going to an old store like that. Wonderful memories. Thank you for sharing ❤

Man i love the way at the start of your video, Mr. Warden gave so much pertinent info on that store in less than a minutes time! Please pardon me if you can, but im so used to hearing youtubers take 5 minutes or more just to explain one idea or reason for their video. And when he recounted the purchase and subsequent auction of the stores contents he did so in less than a minute. Mr.Dan did pretty good too when he added to what he knew about the store. To me, its not just the video subject matter, its how its all presented. I enjoy it most when the presenter gives short concise info about what he/she is doing.

That's so awesome. Shame about the missing tin and holes in the roof though.😢

Thank you very much for sharing this old store and all the history and personal memories. This meant alot to me...

What a wonderful History lesson. I absolutely loved this video.