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

[Cecil Houk]

Darlene:

That's P O P C O R N!

Cecil

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Darlene 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:41 PM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Mrs. Shokley's popcorn shop


  i love popcorn
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: DanM 
    To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
    Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:47 AM
    Subject: Re: [or-roots] Mrs. Shokley's popcorn shop


    My favorite place was Dell Burgers in the mid 50's in Medford Or.
        I know there is a lot of cool history on these old Oregon towns and there are not a lot of people left to tell them, and even less that are on computers.
        I am not old enough to have memory of 45 to about 52. Only from personal experience we stayed home because my mom and dad worked.
        We did not have a popcorn shop, but I was real interested in Newberrys and Woolworths and Western Auto in the those days and all the bikes then had * fenders* <G>

    Happy Seasons
    Dan M
    http://www.wvi.com/~wb

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Cecil Houk 
      To: or-roots 
      Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 10:32 AM
      Subject: [or-roots] Mrs. Shokley's popcorn shop


      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 also
      bred 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

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