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I was afraid the Old Po Biddy store had fallen in on itself by now. I am glad it is being taken care of. When I was a little girl (late 50’s and early 60’s) there were I believe 3 houses and the store left in Po Biddy. We would go through Po Biddy on our way to and from Rough Edge where we visited my father’s second cousin, Mrs. Belle Alexander, her son, Dewey Alexander, wife Molly, and sons Roy and Randy. They lived on the Hawkins land. My father, Mr. Ira Autry Hawkins, was born and raised in Rough Edge. My grandparents were James Edwin Hawkins and Mattie Estelle Howard Hawkins. They had 7 sons and 2 daughters all of whom lived. In either the late 40’s or early 50’s my father and my aunts, Mrs. Leila Hawkins Burgess and Miss Lizzie Hawkins bought my Granny a beautiful, 4 BR, 1 story house with a wraparound porch in Woodland. If you turned left after the downtown section of Woodland on the first street you would see the big yard and then Granny’s house. There was a road that her street intersected with that went out to Rough Edge and through Po Biddy, I believe. Across that road from her house was a big silo. Granny passed on from a stroke in 1968. I was 13. I still miss her a lot and that beautiful old house. I don’t know when it was built but probably early 1900’s. Granny and many of my Hawkins kin are buried in one of Woodland’s cemeteries in an area enclosed with an iron fence. I would love to know any information about her house and even if it is still standing. I have looked on Google maps and can’t find it. I wonder if Mr. Dan would know. Thank you for this post from Po Biddy and for any help you can give me.
@@forecon11What was Mike’s mother’s name? I do believe I have some Hawkins kin that I have never gotten to meet. I know my Grandpa James E. Hawkins came from a large family.
I couldn't help imagining the conversations that went on there. The generations of people. Families, friends, and neighbors. This old store is definitely a treasure! Thanks for taking us along.😊
Super cool! I found myself saying and thinking exactly what y'all were. The windows, doors, hardware, yes, old and handmade, wonderful. Even now the place has a warm homey feel, and one can easily imagine it in operation and hear the hum of conversation. It would be a wonderful venue for a family gathering - picnic outside just for old timey atmosphere. Thank you to Hugh Oliver, and to Joy's cousin Norma, for the stories and history! "Snapback with Stanback" was the advertising line/motto/slogan - Correct, Robert, snap back from a headache, aspirin powders with caffeine. My family always called like items, "headache papers," an envelope of powder before the tablet form came along. Love this not only for history, but it means a lot to you, Robert and Joy - all the more enjoyable to watch.❣❣👍👍
Watch this wonderful story from my porch I'm Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 with John Denver playing in the background on the radio 📻 Thanks for this interesting story.
I had the pleasures of being in a store of that nature. My grandma's sister in the Ozarks. Just the essentials is all they carried it was really cool thanks for sharing guys
The Stanback advertising...I thought I had seen something similar before, but it took me a minute to think where. I saw it on a matchbook - not exactly like that design, but with the same "Snapback" slogan. On the inside, it had an advertisement for buying Defense Savings Bonds. So, the slogan must have at least been used around World War II. From the advertising on the matchbook, it does seem like the "snapback" meant to recover faster from the headache. Really neat explore, and I enjoyed the personal stories and history. I would've loved to have shopped for antiques in there!
I grew up as a kid playing in and around the woods there and fondly remember playing hide-n-seek in and around that old store. MANY good memories made in that area. Thank you, Mr. Hugh.
Awesome piece of community history! I remember my grandparents using Stanback for headaches and arthritis. The snap back slogan was referencing it’s quick effect on pain relief making you feel good again from the caffeine and aspirin combination. I would have bolted if I would have seen a large rat.
I am glad you got to show us Old "Po-Biddy." Its almost like imagining about living in the past! Maybe you can find more folks with their history or stories on it. Thank Robert and all the folks with you! ❤❤❤❤
A headache *powder*?? That's very interesting! Did they mix it in water, or another kind of drink? Do you know what it was made of? I should Google it - see what I can find. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Now I'm curious. I'll be setting off on a new adventure...Google-style!☺️
@@cindys.9688 Aspirin with a good dose of Caffeine to make it work quicker, lol. Although Goody Powders were the "powder" of choice there were a few Stanback fans around too back when I was a kid. They still sell these things but doctors cringe if you tell them you use them. Although very effective they are bad on the stomach.
What a treat! Thanks to Robert and friends for showing us this fabulous old store with the unique name of PO Biddy. It’s easy to imagine the men of the community gathered around trading gossip along with tidbits of news. Really great to experience this!
Robert,joy, and Cecil. It’s fun going back in time and seeing a structure that was a store in the good old times. Hearing the story about the two boys riding the cow. How fast time goes by. Well until next time. Honey, take care and stay safe. Love ya 🍺🍺🍺🌹🌈🙏🇺🇸🌞❤️🕊👍😇
Same here. History was always interesting, tho, but I had a hard time keeping up (life problems). That was then...I'm 62 now and a survivor. But I wished I'd been more into history back then. We learned some interesting things! I'm so thankful for Robert's channels. I'm getting my history lessons and loving it. Keeping up just fine.😊 Take care!🌼
You know this is very old but it's a wonderful thing to have this and kids today don't know about this old place. And how it helped so much for great thing and bad days to. Thank you both for letting us see this God bless you both 🙏❤️🌹
I sooo miss the ole country stores where all the old men of the neighborhood would hang out and tell stories. I grew up about eighth of a mile from a crossroad where one was. I'd ride my bike or 3 wheeler down there back in the 80s. There were many others in the area but they have one by one disappeared or left for dead and fell into disrepair. Each store had it's own character and were usually full of characters too. Miss those days.
There was a very similar store just about a half mile from my grandmother's house. They were the original convenience stores. The inventory wasn't large , but for sure there were soft drinks, candy, bread, milk and a few other necessities. You could go in there grab a couple of things and save yourself the 5 mile trip to town. It was a gathering place for the old men to come and swap stories. The Primitive Baptist church was across the road.
This was so enjoyable. Appreciate the walk through. It brought back memories of doing things like this with my dad. Oh, the joys of my childhood and simpler times! I will say, my first thought was...she is walking right in there without checking for rats!
Super cool! I love these old stores. Be really cool to restore it and use it for something such as a museum or meeting place/venue etc. Stanback powder is the same thing as BC headache powder which is the best stuff ever for quick headache relief imo. Sold tons of it at my dad and grandpa's old gas station/store. Thanks y'all for showing us this beautiful old store.
In the early 1970’s my dad and I went to the home place of a man he was doing some farming with. This was Philipp, Mississippi in the delta country. At any rate this man’s son and I walked down the rail road tracks and ended up at a little country store like you have been showing. I’m desperately trying to pull details out of my memory but it has been fifty years. I was probably seven maybe eight at the time. I enjoy your back road adventures so much as it helps jog my memories of living in Greenwood.
I grew up on HWY 19 South in Upson County, and then was a nurse at Upson County Hospital, back in the 1980's. I remember a group of folks lived under the Po Biddy Bridge, on 19, and boy did some more things happen down there If those people had not been homeless "drunks" back in the day, they would not have survived to see another day, after some of the things that went on down there🐾🦊🐺
Imagine the conversation that gave the store its name. They must have been laughing and joking about that "po' biddy" to the point they named the place it. "I'm taking the last of that po' biddy." "You like that po' biddy?" "That po' biddy good! Wish there were more of that po' biddy" "Man, I make better po' biddy than that! That po' biddy ain't that good" "Shoot....I had your chicken. This po' biddy puts your po' biddy to shame!" "Don't be talking about my 'po biddy like that" "You know what? We're gonna put 'po biddy right up there so you can see this po' biddy every time you go by". Diving by....
2:52 - We had giant candles like that, that my Dad would set up on the front stoop of our house every Christmas when I was growing up in the 70s. Anyway, that's awesome to see inside that place. Nice to see Joy again too, if I may say so.🙂
Stanback and Goody Powders are raw aspirin with caffeine. I've taken my share many years ago but didn't know at the time that they are terrible for the stomach. They were very effective though and gave you a nice boost of energy. They were so popular that if you were out all you had to do is ask someone near you for one and there was a good chance someone had a pack in their pocket. I grew up farming so backaches were common and these things would have you pain free and hyped up in minutes, lol.
There is what's left of a tiny little town about 30 miles north and slightly west of where I live in SW Missouri. The town is called Filley, and years ago, I used to go to a flea market there. It was in an old country store building. That was a cool old place. I never go thru Filly anymore, so I don't know if that old building has survived the storms that nature delivers to us here on the eastern edge of the vast Kansas prairies that we live near.
Amazing history. I'm glad all you saw was a rat. 😂 I worried about things that slither! That old chair in the back was cool. Those old shelves are wise, filled with decades of stories to tell if they could.
Snap back with Standback ! Robert is correct. It was the advertising slogan . With BC powders you come back strong ! 💪 I don't remember the Goodys slogan .
Stanback, it's an old headache powder, and it also came in a pill form and was in a small tin. I remember it as a kid in the 70s. It was made in my home state of NC in Salisbury. It's still made today. I want to think that all three of the powder forms of headache powders are now onwed by the same pharmaceutical company.
Wow such good condition. People should really cut out all the little trees up against it. I love those old little places people would gather. It brings back memories of a little gas / store that use to be in Lizella. The last I saw it I was 12 while we were on a vacation to visit relatives. We would walk down to it and get candy and pop. There would always be an old black man just sitting outside. He would question us as to who we were and where we were from. Us kids had extremely blonde hair and just stood out. Come to find out that man was a worker for my great grandpa and he very well knew who my daddy was. Later my dad went down there and talked to the man for a long while. My dad had worked side by side with that man when my dad was just a young boy.
That spot screams "Po Biddy" Bar-b-que to me. Big grill-smokehouse in the rear and brisket platters up front. Cole slaw, beans, potato salad, greens, and a cold hoppy adult beverage.
