Many goods were sold in bulk Continued from Page 1. Hours at the store were sold in paper bags until plastic long. It opened at 6:30 a.m. bags were developed. Goldie and closed at 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. was quick to try the new bags on weekdays. For many years and soon the store had ladies it stayed open until midnight coming there just for the sugar on Saturday to get the farmers' business as they headed home because it kept longer. "If you put brown sugar in a after an evening shopping or paper bag, in two weeks you watching a movie at the thecould hit it with a hammer. It atre. Wright's was never open was just like candy,11 he says. Sunday. VVT IG h T ^ i ^o oi (^ f. K The store sold many of its goods on credit. It was the Depression when Horace bought it and few people had much money. When the war began th<? government introduced ratiomng. Mary recalls one lady came to the store the morning of the announcement with her son and his wagon in tow and bought 100 Ibs. of sugar and 100 Ibs. of flour. "Up to that point she might have been a two-pound buyer," says Mary. Francis made deliveries in a truck while a teenager delivered goods on bicycle. Although Mary says the store wasn't a place where people congregated for long periods, several neighborhood women often showed up,at the same time, leading her father to believe they saw each other going to the store and headed James and Hon Wright at the store, January, 1948. out themselves for a chance to chat. The Livingstons and VanVolkenburg turned the Francis and Horace knew Wrights sold the business in building into apartments. their customers well but al- 1986 to Floyd VanVolkenburg, Today both the Livingstons ways addressed them as Mr. or who operated it for only five and the Wrights live on West Mrs. Gradually such habits months. After that it housed a Moira Street, not far from their went by the wayside. photography studio and then former store. < oldie Livingston and long-time patron Vi Foley in the doorway of Wright's Food Market.