Re: Ike Godsey

Posted by Billy NY on July 10, 2013 at 10:13:44 from (72.226.79.200):

In Reply to: Ike Godsey posted by NY 986 on July 10, 2013 at 09:20:05:

Only thing that comes to mind is the one we had down the road, they were a real general store, carried such an array of goods from hand tools like Union Fork and Hoe, goods that could be used around the home, the farm, barns, some groceries, place was packed with inventory and besides all the numerous hardware stores, these were the places you shopped. In nearby Troy, there was blocks and blocks of retailers downtown, you got your new shoes, and or shoes repaired there, garments, clothing, the local army/navy store,carried Dickies, and similar, I still shopped there out of high school, you could find most anything you wanted. We had suppliers, industry, you needed a belt for the thrower on the baler, Troy Belting had a huge catalog going back a long time. One of the most interesting catalogs I have is from the 50's I think, RB Wing in Albany, all good quality american made goods, industrial, construction, hardware etc. We had local department stores not big chains, there was a Woolworth, its incredible, that literally none of this exists today and you are always careful with your money, with quantity, quality and so on.

I guess thats what I recall the most, and I believe a lot of this was connected to the industry and the remnants of the industrial revolution, things started going down hill in the 70's, very slowly. Progress.... LOL !

The Waltons represented a large self sufficient family, in a rural setting, in a long gone era, there was a lot to appreciate, but also quite a bit to be desired, I suppose its how a person prefers to live, the quiet rural life, good neighbors and friends, a simple life, going to town was a big deal. My grand parents place was similar, the house was connected to the old country store, which was also an old post office. The name of the store was Sykes, rhymes with Ikes! LOL !

I'll include some photos of that, I last visited there in '07, my cousins/aunt sold it, and it sat for years, tin roof, stable, but the demo'd it shortly after so I took a bunch of photos, it was sad, but most of the places I lived or grew up in are no longer there. The store was on the right, the large breezeway between the store and the house was the kitchen and a large one at that, the left was the house, it was like 2 houses connected, nice patio and porches, it did not look like this when we lived here, should have been renovated, tin roof, like a barn, was last painted in '83, no leaks, stone foundation and the best/cold spring water you could have came out of that well. If you look on that green door, there was some ornamental cast piece on there, you can see its gone, and that door was exactly the same when I lived there. Now the rural life also invites some real strange, odd, and somtimes bad people, my mother had someone try to break down the door while she was alone, but with a browning gold trigger 12 GA, my dad arrived just in time to chase him off and fire a few shots at him, he had just been back from the army, 7th special forces, between him and my granddad, this guy would not have had a chance if they got him. State police arrived soon after, never caught him. A kid I rode the bus with was found mutilated and sexually abused, a rotting corpse, to this day they never found him, he disappeared from his summer job at the strawberry farm, was found weeks later. You are smart to carry a weapon and not put yourself in any bad situation in these parts, because in those woods bad things happen, I found a satanic worship area not far from the road behind a church, trees painted red, a dummy hanging, weird mumbo jumbo written in paint on the trees, words just can't describe it, someone was watching me too, they were throwing something, I could hear it land, I escaped, got across the road, to the house, grabbed the shotgun and flanked them from the east, but never caught up to them, its a simple life alright, but there are bad apples everywhere. This was West Stephentown NY.

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