Stanfield’s General Store in Four Oaks is an eclectic mix of the old and the new. Four Oaks, NC
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@francisjaniewski59902 жыл бұрын
My hats off to you for the store. I'm 67 and wish I could land a ole store like that. Good Luck
@humblepie10172 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful! I would love to step back in time into that store
@bettydamnboop30302 жыл бұрын
Literally like walking down memory lane for most people. Beautiful.
@Massive942 жыл бұрын
We need more people like this guy
@browningbelgium23262 жыл бұрын
About 100 million of them!!
@RustyZipper2 жыл бұрын
@@browningbelgium2326 - but for a $1 less I can drive to Wal-Mart 🤣
@gregjones36602 жыл бұрын
Yeah having spent 5 dollars worth of gas.
@situated42 жыл бұрын
We definitely need somethin'.
@lalalandee2 жыл бұрын
I love the wood stove and people sitting around the wood stove talking. I prefer this store to the bigger ones. This store is more personable and charming.
@browningbelgium23262 жыл бұрын
Just like they're supposed to be in small town USA.
@husqv51472 жыл бұрын
LOVE it! The world needs more of these great old get-everything stores!
@llongdong2 жыл бұрын
I'm a VP for a large corporate manufacturer. How I wish I could walk out, drive down to this store in NC, and get a job there as a stock boy. Come in at 6am each day, leave at 6pm. Live in an apt. above one of the downtown buildings. Carefree. That is what the best life is all about.
@VOTOG-ic6hmАй бұрын
Just do it, bud.
@josephrobichaud51982 жыл бұрын
Love story's like this! My grandparents bought a long ago abandoned county store in Freedom NH and I was blessed to get the summers helping them out running it and have many story's about dealing with the local's and the summer people coming into the store. My grandad also drove the local school bus, was on the volunteer fire department, my grandmother was the local town clerk. When my grand father passed away they closed the local school and used the busses to transport people to the church. There was too many people so they had to have two services.
@UNDERGROUNDskateco2 жыл бұрын
My grandmother was the local town clerk too
@Cutter-jx3xj2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. I'm 60 and all that you talked about, I remember and took for granted. I never knew what an amazing time it was to grow up in, I would do it all over again. I guess in the end, memories are truly all we have.
@browningbelgium23262 жыл бұрын
But thank the Lord for the memories!!
@tazkrebbeks33912 жыл бұрын
Growing up in the 60s n early 70s. 15 cent glass of pop. Freshly made at the counter. No premix junk. Grilled hotdog on freshly made bun's. Handful of fries. All for 55 cents. Sitting at the counter spinning on the stools. Lol.
@browningbelgium23262 жыл бұрын
@@tazkrebbeks3391 Quit making me hungry!!
@Cutter-jx3xj2 жыл бұрын
I actually thought about putting a burger place in. High quality burger, hand cut fries and mug root beer. I have been a meat cutter for over 26 years and I won't buy hamburger if I don't grind it. I have seen WAYYYY to much over the years. If I wouldn't sell it to my mom it's NOT going in my counter
@tazkrebbeks33912 жыл бұрын
When people ask me what kind of Pop I want. I always tell them, my favorite is RC Cola. Talk about funny looks. And of course a moon pie. ✌️🇺🇦
@stevenbp1012 жыл бұрын
Your a blessing to the rest of us. Thanks (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
@shannonwilliams19412 жыл бұрын
I wish like hell the US was still entirely this way!!!! I think all of its people would be the way they used to be as well! For the better... 😔
@williamengland61192 жыл бұрын
I agree. Simple times are better than modern times.
@cameraman6552 жыл бұрын
While there are aspects of the past I could do without, however, compared to the chaos and carnage of today's twisted, sick world, I would go back in a heartbeat.
@conniemclamb8504 жыл бұрын
My hometown. Love it!!
@alanstrong552 жыл бұрын
Must be fun to shop there.
@ShootYourRadio2 жыл бұрын
I grew up and live in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. And I love these types of stores. My sister used to own a Old General Store. It was alot of fun. Still had penny candy.
@norrismorrison8492 жыл бұрын
I can't believe this, just yesterday I had one of the moon pies you just showed a picture of, thanks for the memories.
@davidjones9518 Жыл бұрын
Old time can’t be replaced big business can’t replace😊
@nancyyonce29062 жыл бұрын
I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A RC AND MOON PIE !!!
@gregjones36602 жыл бұрын
You still can?
@MrRoseandrc2 жыл бұрын
I have been there and I loved it Thank you for your video
@tanhtran81922 жыл бұрын
👏👍I’m been in US ,since 75 missed these old stores
@billhodges51612 жыл бұрын
Now that's awesome stuff. Old time America.
@alkennedy11242 жыл бұрын
Nice thanks I love this stuff , keep it coming good ol time real deal story’s, praise Jesus Christ grace amen amen 🙏 BigAl California.
@raulmontalvo6189 Жыл бұрын
Those are my favorites I haven't seen a store like this in a long time I would love to see a store like that back open at oldie but a goodie
@LS-he9xb2 жыл бұрын
This is what we as Americans should strive for.
@StanSwan2 жыл бұрын
I am 52 and remember stores like ths in Western Massachusetts. A few are still around but very hard to find these days.
@perry929642 жыл бұрын
im 57 and the town where i live had two of these treasures, both were knocked down cause the land was worth more then it was with the buildings on it.
@thomashumphrey73952 жыл бұрын
I find it relaxing just to hear this man speak. He lowered my blood pressure.
@vincecarnevale44062 жыл бұрын
Had a general store in a small hamlet in upstate New York,when I moved there in the 70's,you could buy anything from a rifle to ammo,fishing gear to snacks,milk,bread gasoline ,if you were a local you could put it on your'tab' and pay at the end of the week , was a meeting place on saturday morning for locals to catch up on small talk and gossip ,the store was a lifeline for many,I didn't mind some of the higher prices,it was the convenience of having the store there when you needed it.An asset to the Community.
@larrykeenan5982 жыл бұрын
Ashe County Cheese is located in West Jefferson, NC. There is an outlet store there. This is also a lovely small NC town to visit.
@williamengland61192 жыл бұрын
The world needs more of this simpler times and people live this man. Can't replace the old simple with new modern. Just not the same. Great video!
@1_fishin_magician1532 жыл бұрын
WE need thousands more of these places....!!!
@u.s.militia76822 жыл бұрын
I used to catch the school bus at a store like this in the 1970’s in Caldwell County Kentucky. I loved the pop cooler.
@chiefslief18867 ай бұрын
Just like the way I imagined the Good Old USA...miss my family in Boston.. Now I'm playing lloyd green' s Star Spangled Banner...it's in my heart ❤
@americanchef2412 Жыл бұрын
Awesome store!!!!
@colleeninprayer1498 Жыл бұрын
Love that old time store 💖🇦🇺
@leeminiaci2 жыл бұрын
Guy is a legend
@designsonyouinparis2 жыл бұрын
What a treasure! Thank you!
@JA-fy1bn2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful to see.
@jaystrock6132 жыл бұрын
We had 2 old hardware stores in the town I grew up in Ohio. They had all kinds of stuff. Fishing gear, guns, ammo, and hard ware, paint, nails ect. I could go in there as a teenager and buy shotgun shells.
@bigears40142 жыл бұрын
I bought ammo at the local takeaway still in the eighties, know it's licensed and photo id to buy , as teenagers we would buy air pellets
@jaystrock6132 жыл бұрын
The good old days.
@browningbelgium23262 жыл бұрын
The older we get, the more we know about them.
@paulalundy16582 жыл бұрын
So thankful for men and women who enjoy the good ol days and Keep General Stores open
@MisfitsFiendClub1382 жыл бұрын
I miss North Carolina so much 😍
@natestakely14782 жыл бұрын
I remember the bench around the red coke machine (filled with Fanta my fav "red pop") that you threw a dime & nickel in a plate for that, attached to the machine. The idea being the clerk could process the non-tongue waggers while the story tellers help themselves. Nobody cheated ever, your reputation was everything. I remember my entire class of girls in HS would make you wait an entirety for the heavy kissing. ALL of them. 1980
@SerAbiotico Жыл бұрын
This segment works as a mini documentary for the store.
@georgewhitehead81852 жыл бұрын
My Son and his Wife live in North Carolina, and I am going to tell them about this store. I am sure that they will like it. Doctor G. W.
@sandylipscomb7003 Жыл бұрын
I would love to visit your store‼️
@kiszmyazz10262 жыл бұрын
I miss stores like that in Michigan
@downhilltwofour00822 жыл бұрын
I love the Checkers table. I had never seen one!
@bks78422 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@esta1ful10 ай бұрын
My dad grew up during the depression and work was hard to find in west texas. He did find a job as a grocery clerk tho. Some of his jobs were painting specials on the windows(everything had to be done in reverse), deliveries, keeping the store swept out and clean and waiting on the customers. This was before the self-service grocery, so every item had to be pulled from the shelf and price noted on side of paper grocery bag. Do you know that the owner had been in business so long that he could just add a column of figures just by glancing at them?the old man finally went out of business he was too kind-hearted and extended too much credit. People were literally starving and he couldn’t stand to see it, especially the kids. He ended up in hard times. My dad sent him money later on. That’s how much he appreciated the job.
@georgeshotrodbarn21132 жыл бұрын
When i was their thirty five years ago it was three oaks and a stump
@timippolito11822 жыл бұрын
I'm into vintage Pinball machines. An old 60s dime pinball would fit in perfectly for that store..
@eileenspamer Жыл бұрын
love it beautiful from uk granny
@InFltSvc Жыл бұрын
I love it!
@donnahimpler66493 жыл бұрын
It's always has the people . Thank God. The educational
@anthonyf.91702 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a great life and lifestyle. I’m retiring down South, I can’t wait!
@cameraman6552 жыл бұрын
Still have a lot of these old General Stores around Texas, great places to hang out.👍🏻
@jamesbryson5752 жыл бұрын
Thank you brother!
@MC-kc9je2 жыл бұрын
I visited here when it was Austin’s. I enjoyed it then and am planning a trip back to enjoy it again. Thanks for sharing
@justdoingitjim70952 жыл бұрын
We had a store at the nearby crossroads intersection like that. It was built of wood with the old wooden porch with chairs out front. Inside they had just about anything you might need from food and drinks to hardware and gas and livestock feed. They even had a deli section with assorted cheeses and meats. They had a grill in the back with a small dining area with one table and 4 chairs. You could get a burger or a cold cut sandwich and a bag of chips or some French fries. They even had a fishing section off to the side that had a variety of fishing needs, including hunting and fishing licenses and live bait like minnows and worms. Mary and Hubert owned the store and while they had it they would extend credit to the local farmers, because they knew how hit and miss farming was. But, they sold the place when they retired and it was torn down with a new store built in it's place. Burglar bars were installed along with steel sliding front door and a security system. Credit was no longer offered and the new owners would only hire young teenagers to work there and service was terrible. They jacked up the prices of everything and started to lose business. Within a couple of years they closed up and it sat there empty for a few years. Recently a family of Orientals bought it and are trying to make a go of it. All I can do is wish them luck, because it's cheaper for me to drive 15 miles into town to get what I need. I sure do miss the old store with Mary and Hubert.
@Thesaltymedic362 жыл бұрын
Didn’t realize it’s right off 95, I’ll have to stop next time I’m going through 👍🏼
@M21L352 жыл бұрын
My maternal grandfather's home town was Plainfield, Wisc. Ed Gein's notoriety put Plainfield on the map. Across the street from the location of Gein's final heinous crime was a Ben Franklin store....if only the walls in that place could talk!
@ideacastilluminate2 жыл бұрын
I lived in Middlebrook VA in the early '80's and we had a store like this. It wasn't as retro/nostalgia as this store, but it was very much an artifact of earlier times. A local woman baked "Scooter Pies" that were akin to "Moon Pies", and they were out of this world good. A Scooter Pie with a 6 & 1/2-ounce Coke and life was good for 13 year old me!
@TheoriginalPhilGood2 жыл бұрын
Well done sir!
@georgevangordon97282 жыл бұрын
Oh I do miss those days i truly do.. I’m not so sure about this progress stuff.. guarantee if I lived close to there I’d spend a lot of time in that store just cause
@IllyaLeonovMorganFreepony2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Snider's store over in Robbinsville. I miss that place.
@julieielasi4156 Жыл бұрын
So good you can get your favorite coke and out of the coke fridge and take your own top off great !!😊
@rexmayn31712 жыл бұрын
Very cool.
@jerrodbutali39902 жыл бұрын
Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade. It shaped like a bananer.
@drumminsonlive91992 жыл бұрын
Love it…
@Blue-rw9kj2 жыл бұрын
Good story, I've got an old RC Cola cooler from the 50s in my basement here in NC, still works.
@bonalcantara3 жыл бұрын
Moon pie.....
@christyshultz64433 жыл бұрын
And pouring peanut in your RC your Dr pepper and eating them out that way. But yeah RC cola a Moon pie.
@rickdavid2442 жыл бұрын
What an age we live in.
@randir142 жыл бұрын
Looks comfy
@hassanashwas67192 жыл бұрын
Better then a thousand meuseum
@rogerthat3092 жыл бұрын
Man, now I really want a nice cold Coke
@genabell24082 жыл бұрын
The store about five from the end somewhere in virginia is actually Penns store in ky
@joemomma19682 жыл бұрын
20bux for cheese...that's just great
@cotyreed0473602 жыл бұрын
It wadent werkin, so i got it werkin.
@barrykelly27222 жыл бұрын
How far is this from Wilmington?
@TWTexasA12 жыл бұрын
Big city folk have no idea what their missing…ya you can shop at the big box stores and make the rich richer but there’s nothing like a small town general store and hardware……nothing!!!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@whiten0ise12 жыл бұрын
Cool
@mistofoles Жыл бұрын
@3:38 - "You gonna pay for that, Tex ?"
@davidjones9518 Жыл бұрын
Go green calif 😊😊😊😊❤
@davidmackenzie54037 ай бұрын
We need full service gas station like they had in the sixties real honest service
@heldenkreuz2 жыл бұрын
A M E R I C A 🇺🇸🦅🗽📜🐍🙏🏽
@jamming85192 жыл бұрын
Does Stanfields except online orders?
@roberth30942 жыл бұрын
Do you carry Paul's famous relish?
@dannyburch49732 жыл бұрын
when America was great.
@paulackley69192 жыл бұрын
And yet your window signage was done in vinyl letters? Hand painted would've really added a more relastic period touch!
@mistervacation232 жыл бұрын
Let me have okay yeah let me have a three musketeers and a ballpoint pen one of those Combs there a pint of Old Harper couple of flashlights batteries and the beef jerky.
@brocktonma.18162 жыл бұрын
Nice accents.
@francisjaniewski59902 жыл бұрын
Where did you get the old formula RC?
@perry929642 жыл бұрын
rc cola is still being made i live in nj and can buy it in the shop rite
@francisjaniewski59902 жыл бұрын
@@perry92964 I'm looking for 12 oz glass bottles. They use cane sugar with those
@jodywhitehead91732 жыл бұрын
What was click bait for me was the old time drink cooler.
@SirLangsalot2 жыл бұрын
Pump Kin.
@embossed642 жыл бұрын
shut down walmart, and let the general stores come back.
@jimboslice94722 жыл бұрын
u kant fix ignurt
@adventureswithfrodo27212 жыл бұрын
Nothing more then just another tourist attraction.
@mistervacation233 жыл бұрын
This one is a nickel., This one also is a nickel. And here's a quarter. And another quarter. And a penny. See? Nickel, nickel, quarter, quarter, penny. Are any of these coins worth anything? NO !