Here's a shot from this weekend's trip at the 50's era general store/post office in Mountville, GA. I'm not sure if the store is still open but I decided to try wrapping the fuel hose around the bike to suggest some sort of entrapment theme. I'm not sure the effect worked but the store takes me back to the times when we'd travel through rural Oregon, northern California and Nevada. Most of the filling stations out in the rural parts were of this sort where you could get everything from bread to bait. Around here the few of these that still survive have to add things to compete with the more modern stores such as a little restaurant or video gambling machines. An interesting but little known fact was that my family once held the only postal commission for all of northeast Nevada in a tiny little place known as Fort Hallick. The fort was built to protect the soon to come transcontinental railroad from possible raids from the local Native American tribes. My great grandfather and his brother brought the first stallions to the calvary fort and used the money they earned selling the horses to the Army to buy the land for the ranch that my family owned in the area for a couple of generations. The ranch and fort were outside the present day village of Lamoille, NV and I'm told you can still see the row of trees my great grandfather planted at the entrance to the ranch property nearest the house they built. Anyway, Enjoy!
