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Duties back in the old days included more than just waiting oft customers. “Ote Mondays, 1 had an egg route and delivered groceries and feed at the same time. Thursdays, we took a truck with livestock to Baltimore,” Theodore remembered. “Then, on Fridays, we sold eggs and chickens house to house in Washington, D. C.,” he said, noting that conditions in the metropolitan area were different then. “We’d park our pick-up next to the sidewalk and leave it while we knocked on doors. That’s when things weren’t bad in the city,” he remembered with a smile.
In the good old days, Barrons was grocery store, hardware store, meat market, ladies hat shop, ice house, fabric shop, shoe store and tailors all rolled into one.
Counters and shelves held bolts of fabric. Upstairs, hats were styled for ladies of fashion. In the side room, hams and sidemeat hung from hooks in the ceiling.
Margaret Barron still h^s the big book that customers flipped through to pick out the suit they wanted to order from a Chicago-based
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