The Corner Store

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OMG, ya'll have really brought it back!! My corner store was Jones Store! He had everything!! He had:

Now and Laters: 1 pack for 15 cents, 2 for a quarter, the super packs for 35 cents

Lemonheads, Cherry Chan, Boston Baked Beans, Alexander The Grape: all 10 cents a box, and the boxes made great ghetto kazoos once you ate all the candy. We used to rankle grandmama's nerves blowing those boxes!

The big pickles: 50 cents
Peppermint sticks: 5 cents
Honey Buns, Little Debbie cakes, etc: 25 cents
Pops: 35 cents a can

Mr. Jones also sold meat, school supplies, stamps, loose cigarettes, pantyhose, toys, books and magazines (that's how I got hooked on 18 Pine Street books and Black Confessions magazines) and just about anything you could think of.


For a little while his penny candy was 5 cents until this other corner store opened right across the street called Mom's Place and her penny candy (Jingles, Frooties, etc) was actually a penny and so all the neighborhood kids flocked there. Then Mr. Jones started having take-out dinners and lowered the prices on his candy and poor Mom had to close up shop.

Later on, Mr. Jones' daughter got married and had a HUGE fairy tale wedding complete with reception at the country club with a live band. It took up 2 pages in the Sunday Society section of my hometown paper. My sibs and cousins and I like to think that we financed her wedding with all the money we spent in his store.