Come on in...

Come on in...don't mind the squeak, every good screen door has a squeak. There is some speculation that these are the original screen doors back in the days when Bay City was a thriving little community, with not only one general store, but two. And an ice cream parlor, and a barber shop, and a church, and several houses. And back when the men sat around the pot belly stove swapping stories, the women were buying fabric and groceries and the kids were playing outside, without a cellphone and without any toys that required batteries or joysticks. But I digress...come on in! We're not open right now but we're putting on the coffee pot just for you to have a little peek into our world. Come on, a cup of coffee is always on the house at the Bay City General Store. It's pretty hot, maybe you'd rather reach into the old 7-Up cooler and grab an icy cold root beer or RC Cola. Come on in and take a look around -- looks are free at the Bay City General Store too. Now we're new to this blogging situation and it has just occurred to us that our photos are going to be out of order.........but you'll get the general idea. Come on in!

Introductions

We thought before we got too far down the road with our daily ledger entries we better introduce y'all to "The Boss." Sadie is 22 months old going on 18 years but she's nice enough to let us think we're running the show around here, although it's hard to tell from the grin on her face. She's optimistic --- she's ready for another St. Louis Cardinal World Series. She is the reward you get for having kids -- a granddaughter! You'll be seeing more of her around here

Store History and Location

The Bay City General Store was built in 1915 by our neighbor's grandfather and was operated as a general merchandise store until 1973 when the owner passed away. According to all of the ledgers from the store a wide variety of merchandise was sold, bartered and traded -- everything from fabric to nails, gas, penny candy, groceries, clothes, seeds, everything you could possibly want. But the store was famous for its bologna and cheese sandwiches. Anyone who ever visited the Bay City General Store remembers vividly and fondly Mr. Weeks' bologna and cheese sandwiches where he sliced the bologna oh so thick with his butcher knife and piled on the cheese, all for 10 cents. As we get comfortable with this blog concept (what would Mr. Weeks think about all this) we'll show you more of our little store and our slice of paradise.

Entries from the Bay City General Store Ledger

Welcome to the Bay City General Store Ledger where we plan to share some antiques, art and the antics of a 92 year old store and its cast of characters. Can you tell we are nervous? We've been peeping in the windows of many blogs over the last several months wishing we had one, wanting one really, really bad. We told the store we'd have one by the first of September but we didn't really know what we needed to be -- we wanted to be lots of things. We sell antiques, collectibles and fashionable junque, we sell gourmet coffees and teas, we sell candy and cold sodas and in our spare time we create a little art along the way. So I hope you will join us as we enter our activities into the Bay City General Store Ledger.