![]() ![]() In a larger sense, however, this book does more than detail the operation of a specific local store it is the history of a bygone era. The book was written by Mel Spahr, a life-long resident of Cumberland County, whose parents owned the establishment and who, as a young boy, worked in the store. ![]() The Old Country Store on the Miracle Mile: A True Story tells the tale of the general store that once operated in Middlesex, Pennsylvania, along what is now U.S. Victims of the big-store competition made possible by a mobile society, few of the old stores remain. Paperback $8.95 (ISBN 0- 533-12837-4)Īt one time almost every crossroad community in Pennsylvania had its own general store, so named because these businesses handled all types of general merchandise from food to hardware to clothing. Mel Spahr, The Old Country Store on the Miracle Mile: A True Story. ![]()
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