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Originally Posted by madrasahs
Memory Lane indeed.
I grew up buying stamps from Marion Horner Robie -- Post-Master (Post-Mistress?), grocer, and telephone-operator hub.
Our telephone number was "10" -- "ring twice". I suspect Ms. Robie knew much of what went on around Winnipesaukee. It didn't help that we had to yell into the telephone to be heard by the other party on our long distance calls!
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As a kid, my grandparents would take me to the general store/post office/phone company every day. All these years later, and I still think of that building as the General Store (and Mrs. Robie's house!). I used to love the porch swing overlooking the brook. We'd go there, get the mail, pick up some groceries, then head to the "old" dump, and hit the farm stand on the way back.