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Appreciate it, Paula!

I am a bit embarrassed this morning that I wrote a novel...but I reckon that if that's all I have to be embarrassed about, I'm doing pretty good! :cool:

Were you one of the Zeals? We used to shop at Zeals at SRB. My mother would take the clan there and I would look forward to getting some Banana Bikes (taffy). I remember the Zeals had two blonde headed children, one girl and one boy, I believe and we would see them at the Pt. Washington Methodist church where Mrs. Butler was playing the organ or piano. Sound familiar? :idontno: There was the laundramat close by and that was about it.

Hey SS, did you read the story on the home page. It is about early Grayton Beach history. This is the story that drew us to the area. It is really interesting and I wonder if the writer is on the board.

My brother wrote one of the stories, it is the Recent History link I think.

Appreciate it, Paula!

I am a bit embarrassed this morning that I wrote a novel...but I reckon that if that's all I have to be embarrassed about, I'm doing pretty good! :cool:

ShallowsNole: A lot of us on this board are quite sentimental. That's why we love SoWal -- what a beautiful place to build and share memories. So many of us are new to SoWal so it's wonderful to learn the history of the area through people who have been here a long time. Keep the stories coming as you remember them.

Were you one of the Zeals? We used to shop at Zeals at SRB. My mother would take the clan there and I would look forward to getting some Banana Bikes (taffy). I remember the Zeals had two blonde headed children, one girl and one boy, I believe and we would see them at the Pt. Washington Methodist church where Mrs. Butler was playing the organ or piano. Sound familiar? :idontno: There was the laundramat close by and that was about it.

My parents and my aunt bought the South Walton Superette from the Ziels. Later, my aunt sold her interest in the store at about the same time my brother came back from serving in the Air Force. My dad and my brother then ran the store until 1981.

I don't recall the Ziels having children, but I was very young then...but if the children you are thinking of were somewhere between say, 8 and 14 and they used to light candles at the PWUMC, they were probably my wonderful blonde twin cousins, Gid and Gayle Godwin. They may have worked for the Ziels before their mom and my dad bought the store.

During the time that the Ziels ran the store, my dad was probably more famous for being a County Constable. I know he worked Grayton Beach quite a bit. After he bought the store, he found that a law enforcement officer could not have a liquor license :bang: and he had to have the license to sell draft beer in the back of the store, so he had to give up being a constable. :roll:

I'll pm you...

>>>Banana Bikes (taffy)

Got just one of those, ever - so sick in the night they thought I had appendicitis - finally got rid of it, all over the ambulance - cured me forever of Banana Bikes! (shiver!)