[or-roots] Mrs. Shokley's popcorn shop

[Connie Guardino]

Here in Racine, Wisconsin, are shops selling what is called Chicago
Popcorn. I've eaten it, but don't know what is so extraordinary or
spectacular about it. Of coursle, they also sell catfish to satisfy the
black population. On the Oregon coast, it is taffy shops--who'se got the
best, etc.

Cecil Houk wrote:

> Sweet Home in the 1940's We may never know what made Mrs. Shockley's
> popcorn taste so good, but we will never forget that it did. A little
> hole in the wall on Main Street, just east of 12th Ave., was where  we
> bought her delicacies.  She alsobred and sold cocker spaniel dogs. My
> first dog was "Skippy", named after Skippy peannutbutter, came from
> Mrs. Shockley.  I will never forget the day that Skippy was killed by
> a hit and run driver in front of out house on HWY 20 at Foster,
> OR. For fear of flames from the Manear family I will not relate the
> "tail" of Pedro (one of Skippy's pups given to the Virgil Manear
> family), except to say that I saw Virgil slam the door on Pedro's
> tail. What the heck.  All of those popcorn shops in Chicago don't come
> close to what Mrs. Shockley sold  in the good old days!! Cecil Cecil
> Houk, ET1 USN Ret.
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