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Von Flatt Price shares great memories of Old Columbia

Written after seeing: Memorable Old Columbia, KY: A doorway to the past, a photo by Pen

By Von Price Flatt

Oh My God! Did this bring back old memories from when growing up. I can remember my Dad, Otha Flatt, going there - to C.R. Hutchison & Sons - and buying so many things.

So many of the old stores bring back memories:

• Russell Dry Goods: Mr. Upchurch was always such a gentlemen


• The Style Shop or Vaughn Dress Shop where you bought the really nice clothes then


• Coomer's Cafe where I can remember my mother and I would go for a great fish sandwich


• Lowe's Drug Store had great potato salad


• Rexall Drug Store had the best Cherry co*ke


• G & M Grill. I never knew what the "G & M" was suppose to be, but it was the place to hang out on the Square


• Marshall's Shoe Store was the place to get your new Bass Weejuns for High School each year

And when I was 10 years old my parents had the Coffee Shop in the old Miller Hotel. I used to go across to the Rexall Druge Store and get a Cherry co*ke everyday, and every morning I can remember Mr. E.P. Waggener coming in for coffee before he went on his mail route. I can always remember him as being such a happy man.

There were real tough decisions for a kid with a dime to spend, back then

And who could ever forget the Ben Franklin Store and Nell's 5 & Dime Store? What a wonderful memory of going into the store and looking at the glass bins of candy and trying to decide which one I wanted a dime's worth of. And of course the Circle R was the place to go and just drive around and circle the Square on Saturday night.

And then came Donnie's Drive In and we thought that we had moved uptown by then.

Now when I go "through" Columbia I look at such a change and with the new Judicial Center being built....I hope that they arend't going to tear down the Old Court House!

I can still see the farmers coming to town on Saturday and setting on the benchs doing their whittling and the cedar shavings on the ground.

And Miss Betty keeping the restroom at the Courthouse clean.

And of course who could ever forget Bill Beard...everyone knew him. I always thought that he was the tallest man that I would ever see!

All of this might be boring, but it is some of my fondest memories when growing up in Adair County. My High School Class (Class of 1964) just had our 45th Reunion and each year it is so much fun to see everyone.

One thinks of the past and all of the wonderful people who have passed through our life and yet we take life for granted. -Von Flatt Price

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