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A Columbia County Boy's Recollections and Memories of Columbia County Florida (2012) Lenvil H. Dicks

SHARING A MILKSHAKE WITH MA

I can remember as a small boy when my mother would take me to Carver’s Drug Store, which was
located on North Marion Street a block north of the Blanche Hotel and on the eastside of Marion Street
on the corner.

They had a soda fountain in that drug store, as did all drug stores back in those days, and sometimes
when we would go to town ma would take me down to Carver’s Drug Store, and she would order a
milkshake, which cost a dime, and which consisted of two large glasses of milkshake after they poured it
from the container in which the shaking took place.

I would drink one glass of the milkshake, and ma would drink the other, and we both tremendously
enjoyed it. Sometimes we would get a strawberry milkshake, and sometimes we would get a pineapple
milkshake. Some of the earliest and fondest memories I have spending time with ma was during the
times we would share a milkshake at Carver’s Drug Store.

Incidentally, Mr. Carver and his wife, Lois, lived in the house just north of where my sister Golde and
Eric lived, which is now south Main Avenue, formerly known as First Street, and the street ended just
one house south of Golde’s. Carver lived on the comer, Golde and Eric lived in the next house, and the
next house at that time was occupied by a family named Wheeler. Mrs. Wheeler was the niece of JC
Penney, who started all the Penney stores, and he would occasionally visit there and Eric and Golde got
to know him quite well.

That’s just a little information that popped in to my head, so I thought I would include it in the book.

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