Posted by Buzzman72 on July 10, 2013 at 18:27:53 from (74.138.185.198):
In Reply to: Re: Ike Godsey posted by j hikemper on July 10, 2013 at 10:14:14:
A few miles across the way from Zabel's was Winterkorn's Store, in beautiful downtown New Middletown, IN. My great-grandfather, Henry Winterkorn, started the store in his 20's or thereabout. He died in 1964 at 91 in the house next to the store.
There were a couple of other stores in New Middletown--hard to believe in a town that small--and competition was tough. Complicating that, Winterkorn's store was in the middle of the block, not at the crossroads a block away. But he WAS next door to Ranger Hall, where the New Middletown Rangers played basketball. Grandpa Winterkorn had a Model T huckster truck, and he'd travel around the countryside, either selling his wares on hand or ordering the stuff he didn't have on the truck. He had lettering on the front of the truck that said "HERE COMES WINTERKORN" and lettering on the back that said "THERE GOES WINTERKORN."
When I was a kid, Grandpa Winterkorn was long retired, and his youngest son, Fred, ran the store. Between the store and the house, in an area about the size of an oversized broom closet, was the New Middletown Post Office. Uncle Fred's wife, Elizabeth, was the postmaster. [Uncle Fred was the assistant postmaster and mail clerk.]
As I recall, Uncle Fred closed the store in about 1961 or '62. By then, he said the local grocery store could sell a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes cheaper than he could buy them.
I have a photo of the truck taken during the WWI era...when I get time, I'll post it.
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