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The first real "Norman Rockwell" style store I encountered in the US was in Tecopah in the Mojave desert. Neat, old fashioned grocery store, with an old creaky shaded porch. I had been hichhiking through the desert in early summer and was parched and hot. Went inside and got a cold beer in a...

The litte town where I grew up had two groceries, a bakershop, a butcher, a blacksmith, a drugstore, 2 gas stations a railroad hotel and a postoffice. All gone! It happened to a lot of small villages/towns here. They grew up around a railroad station, where produce could be shipped out to the...