The Old Country Store
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Printed Date: 15 Feb 2026 at 9:49am
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Topic: The Old Country Store
Posted By: BuckSkin
Subject: The Old Country Store
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2025 at 5:33am
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KY Hwy 80 East - Russell Springs - Russell County - Kentucky Photo Taken through the Glass of a Moving Vehicle Saturday_26-April-2014 The Fonthill General Store and Post Office https://ibb.co/8nBCC0wm" rel="nofollow">  Located on KY76East between KY80 and KY910 on the South side of KY80 and the South side of KY76. 37.082840°N 85.001564°W Elev. 947' The Camera is on KY Hwy 80 East. That is KY Hwy 76, just barely missing the corner of the front porch, passing between the store and the house beyond. The Cumberland Parkway is just beyond the far barns in the background. Recent Street View shows this store building to be up on steel and being seriously strengthened and restored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonthill,_Kentucky" rel="nofollow -
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Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2025 at 3:22am
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Creelsboro - Russell County - Kentucky Saturday_26-August-2023 Cedar Bench inside Creelsboro Country Store https://ibb.co/J4S4W0n" rel="nofollow">  36.885044°N 85.197990°W Elevation 631' 36° 53' 6.16"N 85° 11' 52.76"W
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Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2025 at 11:28am
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Creelsboro - Russell County - Kentucky Saturday_26-August-2023 Rotating Bolt Bin inside Creelsboro Country Store https://ibb.co/FLzp5jSD" rel="nofollow">  I believe this cabinet and many like it were built for and supplied by the hardware company that supplied the bolts. If a store owner made a large enough initial purchase of bolts, one of these cabinets was provided at no extra cost; the hardware company made enough profit on that initial purchase to absorb the cost of the cabinet. Once the cabinet was in place, then a route salesman would come by occasionally and replenish the stock. Most such stores were out of the reach of telephone lines and their only contact with suppliers were the U.S.Mail and route salesmen. 36.885044°N 85.197990°W Elevation 631' 36° 53' 6.16"N 85° 11' 52.76"W Look at the circular sawmill marks in that rough-sawn Oak floor(or it could be extinct Chestnut).
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Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2025 at 6:25am
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Sunday_29-December-2024 https://ibb.co/RkrLPxSX" rel="nofollow">  The Jot 'em Down Store https://ibb.co/twPbCTsk" rel="nofollow">  I can cross The Jot 'em Down Store off my bucket list; I have been there. I had a Diablo Burger and a Doctor Pepper and a Zero candy bar. Located at the Intersection of Russell Cave Road and Iron Works Pike in the South West corner, fronting on Russell Cave Road. This is where the whose who of the Bluegrass horse world take their lunch and mingle with the riders and trainers. Photo taken through the glass of a moving vehicle. Russell Cave Road and Iron Works Pike Lexington - Fayette County - Kentucky 38° 7'7.33" North Parallel - 84°26'48.80" West Meridian 951' Above Sea Level
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2025 at 3:38pm
https://youtu.be/81D2yQk_c60?si=T32ppYrQo5CpBAdc" rel="nofollow - https://youtu.be/81D2yQk_c60?si=T32ppYrQo5CpBAdc  ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2026 at 11:41am
| thats the places i miss like our hometown general store i whent out in the mid 80s when they wanted to retire |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2026 at 5:46am
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I love these old stores. We still have Stubs grocery in the next town over and the Riverview store right down the road from here. They’ve modernized the interior of Riverview a little but it still has the same character it has always had. I usually stop for coffee every afternoon and go up on cold weekends in the morning. Recently we were working long hours and I didn’t get in for a few days. The old men in there had Miss Dana calling me to make sure I was ok. She said they were driving her nuts worrying about me. Down south of here we have the Oark store. Oldest store in Arkansas. They have the best burgers and homemade pie. I take a motorcycle ride down there every chance I get. |
Posted By: 8070nc
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2026 at 7:30am
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Thad i know it warms your heart they checked on you. Real Americans doing what real Americans do ------------- 1984 80780 1957 D14 DES 300 with 25000 engine 616 tractor |
Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2026 at 8:21am
Didn't Sheriff Buford T. Justice order a Diablo Sandwich and a Dr. Pepper in the movie Smokey and the Bandit? It's been near 50 years since I saw it.
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BuckSkin wrote:Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2026 at 8:49am
Good memory; watch https://www.allischalmers.com/forum/the-old-country-store_topic207379_post1790893.html#1790893" rel="nofollow - compliments of DIYDave
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Posted By: Darwin W. Kurtz
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2026 at 9:31pm
| I know a guy that grew up with grandparents who ran a little country store in Omaha Arkansas - I think it was Omaha |