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A A "A Family Tradition for 131 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Wednesday, August 6, 1997 - 3 History on display Nestleton Country Store gives visitors a glimpse of the past By Rik Davie Port Perry Star The owners of the Nestleton Country Store may have found a way ° to help customers cope with the most annoying part of shopping: waiting in ine. Pete and Lou Fitton have turned the walls and upper shelves of their 90- year-old grocery and bakery into a museum of the store's history. store has been the focal point of life in the hamlet. With very little change to its outward appearance the Nestleton Country Store has, over the years, gone from selling suspenders and boot hooks to frozen food and video taped movies. Mrs. Fitton said the project just sort of happened. "When we took over the store (12 years ago) I found some old tobacco tins and other tins in the attic. We Since it was opened in 1907, the found other things, lard tins, crates, TR . a. y 4 decorate the store. boxes of Kellogs Corn Flakes around the store. My parents had some old things and the rest just .grew over time." eS : Customers waiting for fresh baked 1h | goods can look at a series of pictures : %* 4 & | taken of the store after the great bliz- jr @ Wg - a zard of 1946, when the mail had to be 3 | ! or ~ » id brought into 'Nestleton by sled. v hos | 3) . an % a LL The shelves above contain many old yoo X & NN Oe household items that may have been This picture shows mail being delivered i in Nestleton during a huge blizzard gold Lhe Sire al ole time, ke wash in 1946. Other photos of the store, taken over Nestleton Country Store owner Pete Fitton with a picture taken of the build- ing decades ago. Old photos, as well as product containers from other eras, the years -- some donated by local peo- ple from their own albums -- adorn the shelves. One shows a 1958 Chevy next to old-style glass top gas pumps. "Some of our customers have helped out with photos and with identifying people in the pictures," said Mrs. Fitton. Next time you're in the busy little store in Nestleton, don't stare at the floor or the ceiling as you wait in line. Look around you and take in the histo- ry of the store, and the people of the tiny hamlet it has served for 90 years. VAR 0 a 5 TO 5 7 OU NU Sy TH THREE i HER HE El J] FO OTWEAR We're Clearing All our summer Shoes to the Bare walls!!! EVERYTHING MUST GO!!! 30% off - Discontinued women's casual walking shoes and clearance sandals 40% off ' « Selected men's and women's summer sandals 026 off ake school shoes 40% off HHH HH 'a 'd MT - Discontinued kid's runners and discontinued - Selected kid's summer sandals, dress shoes and running shoes | hi __You Don't want To Miss This Sale! - BACK LCN DT NINE HIN (rate Xo YH we. a d. Ks - 'HB AHH | HEH 1H Y ns / * 18 - A : \ , Service, Quality & C Since 1881 168 Queen St., Port Perry 985-2521 HH y 174 Queen St., Fort perry 965-6797 (former location of Pentlands {HHH Cian, a A--