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“We had hardware, feed, fertilizers, horse shoes, shoe pegs and groceries too,” Margaret Barron said with laughter, remembering the wide variety of items which were considered a necessity.
Spending 51 years of her life in Viewtown, living above the store and later next door in the house to the right, serving 41 and one half years as postmaster in the post office, acting as clerk, and after the death of her husband, owner of the store, Mrs. Barron became well versed on what was a necessity to her customers.
She remembers sugar and flour in huge-100 pound wooden bins, hand-dipped for each customer, loose beans and ground coffee in the same form, hooked banana bunches hanging from livestock feed in large burlap sacks and bins of fresh vegetables and fish.
Modem transportation, convenience foods, health regulations and consumer demand put a stop to many of the items though serving the community’s needs keeps Viewtown Store operating.
“People did not have the transportation,” of the 1990’s and “country stores had to carry a variety of things,” Mrs. Barron said, adding the old Viewtown Store also carried livery goods and casket hinges.
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