General Stores and Trading

Series: Sing hi—sing lo series

Duration: 15 min

Genre: Television

Year Published: 1959

Creator: KQED San Francisco Bash Kennett Kathleen Rawlings Robert Nissen

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Bash describes the difference in the way people shopped in the early days, telling how traveling “Yankee Peddlers” brought things in their wagons from farm to farm, then how the old fashioned general store sprang up. Authentic objects from the past are displayed, form high button shoes, to early spectacles. All the flavor of the general store, with its cracker barrels, Franklin stove, and crowded counters comes alive on the set, and gives a picture of the life of the early communities. Songs include “Paper of Pins,” “The Keeper,” and “Jennie Jenkins.”

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)


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