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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!
I knew Cap'n Thomas and his marine supply/chain saw shop (the chain-saw part was appropriate, as he was missing a leg due to a slip while forest clear-cutting), and Bob Moulton of the only Marina in town -- and went to school with the Hansel and Gretel Shop's [Wright's] daughter.
The Village Dining Room was a regular stop -- and excellent in every regard. Reverend and Mrs. Cantwell too, while we're about it. Edward was our "circuit-riding preacher" -- whose circuit included Wolfeboro's First Christian Church, as well as Melvin's Church.
But the store I was thinking of was the Mirror Lake (I think)Post Office -- which had a dock about 150 feet from the Post Master. Memory Lane indeed.
Boy, are you old. 
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I remember the place you are thinking about. I believe the store was owned by a man named Ernie Piper. He had the post office in his store and also had 2 gas pumps outside. It was right on the corner of 109 and Tuftonboro Neck Road in on the left hand side and he had a small dock behind the place off of Winter Harbor. I remember getting huge candy bars for 15 cents. I always waited all year for our 10 day vacation each August and still return there whenever I can. Are we thinking of the same place?? Ernie passed away way back in the early seventies and the place has been a private residence ever since.