Abandoned Store Left in 1963

YouTube ^ | May 6, 2021 | Destination Adventure

[SamAdams76]

Now that is what I call a time capsule.

I was still in diapers when that store was closed. Interesting to see what was on the shelves of stores around the time I was born.

[Disambiguator]

I had some “cask strength” Laphroiag one time. It was tasty and smooth, but what a kick! I think it was something like 114 proof. No doubles on that stuff.

[oldvirginian]

My step father had a large chest of old hand tools. He told me they had been the tools his dad had used when working in the old cotton mill. Odd looking wrenches big as a baseball bat.
When the mill closed down he took them home with him as they were useless anywhere else since there wasn’t another cotton mill in the state. It was real interesting looking at those tools. My step father knew what each of the tools was for since he had worked at the mill himself.

[StAnDeliver]

Snap-tite! Best beer cap, probably invented by God Himself.

Can you imagine American Pickers walking through the door?

[Hot Tabasco]

Thanks for posting this, it was a fascinating video.

I have an old Life magazine from January, 1953 that has a photo of my dad in it when he was an officer in the MP's stationed in Berlin. He was briefly assigned to escort a Life photographer named David Douglas Duncan who was doing an expose' on the smuggling of materials out of Germany to Russia....

There also is a Kodak picture of dad and Duncan in dad's office sitting as his desk and drinking coffee......

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[StAnDeliver]

Here's what I would do: buy everything, record placement of everything, recreate the store on a larger-scale somewhere else (viable) as a restaurant, put everything right back where it was, call the restaurant "1963", with a menu from that era -- truly-original-recipe KFC-style fried chicken made in recreations of the Colonel's pressure cookers, lots of meat & potato options, icebox pies, ice tea so strong it takes your breath away and you can feel your hair grow.

On the tvs, run loops of 1963 upbeat news : Kennedy (the good times), Pope John XXIII (good times), maybe "Cleopatra" and "Pink Panther" trailers, Nicklaus winning The Masters, The Judy Garland Show, Beach Boys on the speakers, man oh man. People would flip. out.

[SunkenCiv]

They’d want perhaps 15 items, then take a big (figurative) dump on the rest.

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[Texan5]

Apparently it isn’t for sale-which is probably wise-probably make more by turning it into a small museum-type place, charge admission, sell some cold drinks and snacks for a few bucks, etc-that way they keep their stuff and memories and make money, too...