Bergheim Store (Texas Country Reporter) 

You just gotta love Texas. This is what we're all about. I sure hope it doesn't change

That's why i love Texas whit all my heart ,texas people are the best and hard working ,God bless texas and Texans.

Love you Texas. Please don’t ever change

God Bless Texas FROM JULY 2020

I was born in and grew up in Boerne but when i moved to Kendalia for 2 years, me and my mom would stop off in Bergheim almost every day after school on the way back home. I would always get a bag of chips and a glass bottle coke because that was one of the few places around there to find one lol

Nice to see the old American Traditional way of life still alive. God bless Mr. Engle. Tank you very much for sharing this.

This is great to see! I remember my dad driving from Blanco, Texas just to buy hats and his Wrangler slim fit jeans there. He once bought me a hair dryer there that I still have and still works. IT'S 33 YEARS OLD AND STILL WORKS!

I truly remember the place, I been there before when I was very young and I met the man that owns the place...

How inviting. A simpler place and time. The world needs more of this in this day and time.

Great to see a small business thriving and still valued in the community.

Wish there were more places like this still around

Good store. I’m surprised you knew about Moon Pies. Good story. THIS IS AMERICA !!

What a great story. There was a general store like this in Porter, TX we went to when I was a little one to pick up the mail and get a coke for a nickel from the coke machine...great memories.

Tell Wal-Mart to take a hike. This is a real store. God bless Texas.

This video gave me goose bumps ..................for all the thoughts it brought to mind being a native 56 yr old Texan 🙏🤠🤗 thank you for bringing this stuff to us!!

I've lived just 3 miles from Bergheim for twenty years. Sorry to report the Jones family has sold the property, but that also means a well-deserved rest for Stanley and Charlene. A small business campus seems to be emerging there now, but without much change to the buildings, at least so far. Since the store itself is a state-recognized historic place, I imagine it will be preserved. On the other hand, the nearby intersection of TX 46 and FM 3351 is being rapidly developed. It's not unrealistic to think that the day is not far off when this quaint little spot will be just another San Antonio suburb. Why do people flock to the Hill Country to live like sardines in densely packed subdivisions of tract homes? There are at least a half dozen other places in Texas where they can live like that, not destroy any natural beauty, AND be closer to the big city amenities they seem to love so much. Sigh ....

Bob Phillips, I heard years ago that you had kicked the bucket! I started watching you mostly because my dad liked watching you (and suddenly I get all emotional), but that was when you worked for Channel 4 (KRLD), I believe it was, and your little segments were know all over as "4 Country Reporter!" Then something happened, I don't know what it was, but suddenly you branched out on your own, and became "Texas Country Reporter", and all this time I was thinking you were at least 10 years older than I am, until I just Googled you up, and found out you're only 3 years older than I am! I'll turn 66 this coming September 19th! Well it felt good to find you here on RU-vid, so take care, and stay safe on them old Texas Highways! I know how bad they can get, because I used to drive trucks, and I've been to every corner or Texas, and the US!...👍🚛🇺🇸

Stanley seems like he's a great guy I would like live there

"Credit makes Enemies. Let's be Friends" ~ Old Route 66 sign

I've been in country stores all over the state from Rio Medina to Buda, Refugio to Kress. Loved every one of them. I rarely pass up an opportunity to visit one. I always find something I have to have.

Just went here today 6/14/2021. Thank you Stanley for your help!

sweet, there were stores that had credit where I once lived

I love the Bergheim store, and I think Stanley is a wonderful person.

Cool story, beautiful tradition.

I miss the store, but it has reopened recently as a meat market and seems to be doing well. So thankful they kept the building and the house still looks beautiful.

Sure sounds like a Great place to live GOD BLESS y'all and American 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I suffer from severe clinical depression, and Im not having a good day. So, Im going to leave it here and continue to watch this channel.

So sad that this store closed. It was a great place to visit. They really did have everything!

That's a faithful man,this community.

It's nice to see there's some mom and pop stores still around.

So cool 👍 I would love to visit that store.

Love the hill country, God bless everyone.

My grandfather started a store in McCook Texas back in the 40,s. McCook Mercantile is the name of it and my cousin runs it today. They still have in store credit , You can get a 12” crescent wrench and a six pack of beer any day. The town of McCook today has two grain elevators and a church. Farming and ranching is mainly what makes it .

Love from New Braunfels, TX! ❤️. We’re practically next door neighbors!

Love to read the comments of people that lived there or steal their. Love you on RFD TV From GA

Wow this is one of my favorites the first shot that you see that old stone block that he had the newspapers on that was the entrance to the store you can see is worn from hundreds of years how many people walked in and out of that store

A community build on trust. Well done to you and the family in your town.

WHAT A KIND GENTLEMAN...KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK...GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

Thanks TEXAS for votin for DJT45------again in 2020.

Grew up with a place like this near by.. It's nice to see these little places exist today.

Stanley, you look wonderful! A great profile of a great family. My kids still talk about visiting the Bergheim store and getting a YooHoo. We love you, still!

It's good to hear about places like this that are still going.

Thank you sir appreciate the video I do hope your family still running that store a hundred years from now. And thank you great state of Texas. I came out from San Francisco California two years ago. I swear I work 8 days a week since I've been here I love it. And I did not bring any of that wacko crap with me. The last two years in Texas have been the best in the last 20

My grand parents owned a county store in Freedom NH and I spent my summers there with them. My grandfather could do just about anything, in the back of the store he had a butcher shop, and deli, on the side of the store there was an area where he could work on cars. He also was on the fire dept, drove a school bus, and my grandmother ran the store, PO, and was the town clerk. When my Grand father died they closed the school and had to use the buses to transport people to and from the church because there was no room to park for miles.

This is great! I love how they kept the original store front! And all the old fashioned things.

I love my country. It’s called Texas.

This is awesome!

I remember this story and STILL LOVE this! 🇺🇸 My Grandparents were born in 1903!! OH I hope he continues this thru to the NEXT GENERATION 😍🙏🤩 OH if I were there I would shop there!! 🤠

Thanks. I never thought that area would grow so fast! A friend lives in Bergheim and her mail goes through Boerne now.

This store closed. I'm sure the building will be preserved.

I like all the little stores in the hill country and also in Corpus Christi!

Beautiful Story

My kind of place!

Awesome 👌

That is the way life should be today

I remember going into that store when I was a kid... Hasn't changed a bit...wow!

Awesome!!

This is awesome. I love how it is still old. We have a local Amish store that was real small, crowded and dark. Just real old fashioned. Well that have done so well they bought a new store because of the tourist and not it is wide open, new, and bright. All the charm that us locals loved about it is gone.

Fascinating

This is so beautiful

More jeans in the Bergheim shop than in my wallmart. Cool job.

Nice story. Nice to see something that hasn't changed in America.

I met Stanley in the 1980's when I drove truck cross country ..... I liked to stop and eat at Boerne at the motel cafe (what was name of that? ....was it cascades?) ....then I would go out of my way to stop in to buy small stuff .....reminded me of my Grandfather's old store and they made me feel to home

That alone is enough to make a person want to move to Texas. I hope it stays around for another 100 years.

Fantastic Mr,bergheim,for that we need to maintain our postmasters alive,count with me,Manny Eagle,the Grapfhic Reporter.n.c.

I remember working in that area and they would prepare and sale ham and bologna sandwiches. I'll never forget that.

I pass through there every time I go to Bandera. It's so small, if you blink you can miss it. Never went in the store. Next time I will.

Would gladly bring this guy two burgers from the grill, baked beans, and potato salad.

1903...way to go..hope for many more years

I go by there on 281north up from San Antonio. I'm going to drop by

I love them old country store lobe it

Next time I'm on Hwy. 46 I'll stop by. I've seen the place but never knew it's history.

Sadly, the Bergheim Store has closed permanently. I believe the family that used to own the store has sold it. Last time I went by there, it was some sort of food and drink establishment.

God BLESS you.

He looks quite a bit like the late actor "George Kennedy" Blessings to y'all from a fellow Texan.

These people should go to Noonday Texas to the Blue Top store. It’s got the best little cafe in Texas there. Hamburgers like you’ve never seen. And they sale steak dinners right over the counter. It’s little but it’s one of the best cafes in the world. Check it out sometime.

Amazing

this is North of San Antonio Highway 281 you take a left to get to Bergheim

Up in Canada we had stores like this in small communities. They died out in the 70's and 80's. It used to be so quiet inside them, just the squeaky wood floors made noise.

Kind of reminds me of Niederwall,Tx back in the early 1960's

There used to be at least 8 stores like this in communities across Houston County. They were forced out of business by the Environmental controls on the gasoline tanks they had to have to comply to Federal rules, and Walmart. Simply cost too much to redo the tanks and pumps for them to afford.

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Wow nice 👍

Would love to visit.

Have you got an R C Cola and a bannaner Moon Pie ? Gotta love it ! ⭐

In store credit, the bank of trust

Im moving there too

Awesome!

I want to work there.

You& me both Sir, the world is moving way to fast these days!

I love how they play this off as a small town - it's literally 5-6 miles from the northern city limit of San Antonio, and 30 miles to downtown!

social progress is vital, but some things work just fine how they are. small town general stores are slowly being eradicated by big boxers

I think this is what Alan Jackson meant when he sang “small town southern man”

i live in this area and come here to usually get bate for fishing

the store is closing. went there January 19,2019 reall y sad

Yea mom and pop so much close knit stores. Friendly people day in and day out. Walmart so big so empty 10 minutes to find an "employee " so I just left ,,,,, I go there "MAYBE" 3 OR 4 TIMES A YEAR.🤔😮

good luck

If Bob moves there I’m leaving. 😂

reminds me of Montgomery Texas

wow so many stores in California are rented space