Hood's Grocery was located in the old Opera House on lower Main Street. It was of the old way of doing things. You would go in and after passing the meat display case on the right, usually displaying a pig's head, pig's feet, and some "souse" meat, and approach the sales counter. You simply stated to the clerk, usually Mr. Hood, what you needed, and he would go behind each of the refrigerated cases or reach canned or boxed items down from the to-the-ceiling shelving, and bag it himself. No aisles, no carts, no ten cash registers, no express lane, just one customer served at a time. You could find the regulars there every afternoon, leaning on the beer cooler, drinking away.
So there you have it, lessons for a 10 year old - life is bad for pigs, and everybody has a few beers at 4 o-clock.
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