C.E. Barnes Store

T My name is Paul Barnes and I'm t I'm actually CE Barnes' son, He's fourth generation. But I'm going to give you a little tour of the store and talk a little bit about the family and the So come on with me if you will. Join me for a tour. We do produce. We can do local produce. We do it all year round. And of course we got gasoline. We got diesel fuel off-road and on-road for the farmers and loggers. And we got on-road for the diesel trucks. And of course we got kerosene for your kerosene in the wintertime. So let's go on in and take a look. And we have a July the 4th parade every July the 4th. And the locals So we're a local family and welcome anybody who wants to come by. See we got strawberries, fresh strawberries now. It's in April. We got strawberries. We got fresh squash, new potatoes. Good tomatoes although they're greenhouse but they're good tasting greenhouse tomatoes. Vidalia onions come from Vidalia Georgia, zucc Herb garden my son planted and that's a good herb garden. They've got basil and different kinds of herbs there. And come on inside. Let's take a look see what we got here. On the inside of the store you can see my son was a young little guy but he didn't have a chance to have a hobby horse. Somebody You can see that. Of course my dad he'sitting there looking at us. He's at the beach there. He took a picture of I got a local picture here the local artist Gail O'Neill did. As you look around in the store you can see we've got local t-s Just about every town in North Carolina we've got local t-s You can see the one up there on the mannequin says return to the south and lost or the South cotton strutting cotton. The local t-s They're t We've got the Archelodge t We're now town here in Archelodge and we got Archelodge t-shirts, Archelodge b T Antiques set of scales here that my son redid. Actually the store started in 1927. My grandfather and It's a brother team. They live next door and they ran the store for a few years. Passed away a little young in life and my father took the store over in 1949, 1950 and Actually t We have a great July the 4th celebration. We do You tell me, I mean it was good. Old gas p Bobby Wall came up here every day. If you took a drink out of the box, Bobby Wall put a drink back in the box. So that was We've got a picture of The Jackalow, you can believe it's real or not. I'll tell you about it later. You got a got CB Watson here with daddy. There's a black man, a good friend of ours, worked on the farm here. Jimmy Docs Barnes, my daddy's cousin, he's a popsicle and he's telling somebody he don't believe what they said. He just cooked a hog or somet He was a good friend of ours, a dear friend. Bobby Wall again, my dad asleep. Josh took his picture and my dad didn't want anybody to see Again, another picture of Bobby Wall, Kitty Buck W Johnny W Coach W My dad's a little dog, Poco, a little poodle. And he was petting the dog again in the picture of the store to give my dad. Old candy case here, Tom's candy case. Kids have been in here and got candy out up 40 years or 50 years maybe. A lot of more pictures here. You can see, I mean, it's too many to mention personally, but a lot of pictures of friends and family. Lacey Casper was my uncle and a very good uncle and I got a picture of Again, Kenneth W Josh, my son cooking barbecue hams. My daddy always at Christmas time, we order fresh hams. He'd call a week ahead of time. We always had to have about anywhere from 50 to 100 hams. And we'd get those hams and we'd soak them in a barrel with salt water, we'd brine them. And then the next morning, we'd pull them out and put them on the grill and cook them. We'd take orders a week before and we cook anywhere from 50 to 100 hams for the customers. We didn't make a lot of money, but we did it mostly at cost as a service at Christmas time for the community. Another picture here of And then another picture here of a real good community guy here, Clinton Boyett. He always was faithful. He was actually the school janitor at the old Archulard School that I went to till I was in the second grade. And Clinton, Mr. Clinton was always here and he always You can see we've done a little change in here at Seaborn store. We got gourmet popcorn, delicious, very good. Bertie County peanuts, you can't get any better. Bertie County grows a lot of peanuts. We got blistered. We got honey roasted. We got salt, sea salt and black pepper. Some other flavors right here come and get them. Calabash cocktail sauce for your shrimp and oysters. Very good. Okra pickles, Blue Ridge Okra pickles, watermelon rind pickles, sauces. Got a good barbecue rub here. We just got t Barbecue sauce is about three flavors from two or three vendors. We actually got a strawberry jam here from the Corinth Holder Glad to support the students and what they do. Really appreciate the FFA. Really appreciate that Indian School still has an FFA, Future Farmers of America, w Homemade was Don't worry about putting on your clothes and getting the itch or allergy. These homemade was Homemade peanut butter right here, good for you. And of course more jellies and jams. And if you want to come in and sit down and have a coat, you can read about the Free cookies. You can get your molasses cookie, oatmeal cookie. We keep cookies on the table and hope you come in and eat them so we put some more in there. Mother sitting there to talk to you and ask you questions and any of the friends there. We actually got a couple of counter here with pepper relish, more pickles, okra pickles, watermelon pickles, and actually got a Bloody Mary mix here from Raleigh, North Carolina, Hail Mary. Pepper vinegar made with w Delicious. All you got to do when you use it on your pork or whatever is refill it. Keep it on the stove. It looks good in the kitchen. And I want to show you a little bit, talk a little bit about the We had all this stuff, We've opened it up, laid it out so you can see it. I got a copper steel here. Most of you in Johnson County know what t It's copper steel, a kettle, ok. I got a progressive farmer here from 1968. Right here, progressive farmer magazine. Come in and read it, look at it, whatever you want to do. Oh, cans, pie cans, some Walter Raleigh, tobacco, tin, And I got Navy Plain Snuff. And if you got a call for a cold, come in and get some Hattie Call. We got another case of it back there. Just kidding. But we got plenty of Hattie Call. T Back in the 60s, people would come and get Hattie Call or Cappadeep. And it was a fix all. It had a lot of alcohol in it, but back then people didn't go to the drugstore to do it. So t Got old tobacco seed, lucky strike cigarettes, Navy Plain Snuff, old drink bottles, tire fixings. And then a lot of t I got articles of my dad that they took in the years past. A lot of articles about Arches Lodge, about the family, about the Barnes family. And I had a special friend to bring me t And about 10 years ago when the US started invading Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein, my friend was flying a surveillance plane over Iraq and he came in and he said, Paul, I appreciate the fact that you're flying an American flag outside. And I want to do somet So I've got a flag that I fly on my plane when I'm in Iraq. I want to give that to y'all. And at first I put it on the front door. And then when we started opening up t So t Old TV here, I turn it on, but I'm not sure if it works or not. It's not color. It's probably black and we discovered that they really enjoyed art. So my son's wife Blair contacted the art teachers and asked them if they'd be willing to do a contest about taking a picture and painting anyt So they started the contest and the teachers actually came in and did a survey and then they had the students come in and they took photos of the And then they had to take the photo back to the classroom and actually sketch it out or paint it out or chalk it out with chalk. So what you see are the results of these And as you see here, you got first place, first place here. And these t Okay. And actually the community made the judge and then CE Barnes store donated a $200 scholars And we really appreciate the effort. We appreciate the aberration of the interior of the store and the patronage of the We want to get the community involved. We want to get the Okay. T Some other t We have a candy case here that probably my grandfather had in at least 1900. My grandfather had another store up the road here about a quarter mile for about 10 years. And then he came down to t Otis Barnes was my grandfather's name. And Weldon Barnes was my grandfather's uncle's name. And they went in together and built t I actually built it across the road out here kind of at angle from here and then brought it over about 10 years later. So you can see we got the old artifact candy case, more pictures, a thread, spool case artifact is probably 75, 80 years old, plenty of snacks and whatever here. We do have some of the artifacts on the wall. I don't know if you can remember it not, but I remember in about 1969 gas was 27. 9 cents a gallon. And that's an old sign that was printed or painted by a guy in Windale, a men'sea fella. I remember the guy and he signed it at the bottom. He painted for my dad and then we would stick it out front. And at the time the gas p You could walk out maybe 10 feet and it was all full service because I remember Mr. Jerry Dupree would come to the store and I was a kid about 10 years old and then he'd say go out and p At that time the dollars weren't important. It was the gallons. So five gallons times 27. 9 was what a buck 50 and that's what he paid a dollar 50 for five gallons of gas and they live right over on Loop Road. But Jerry Dupree. And The windows that you actually see up here, city barns, storage, lodge, the best corner of the world were actually original windows that came out of t Okay when the building was moved it was moved straight across the road and the front of the store now was really the back of the store but the windows came out of the store and in about 1959 or 60 my dad's cousin Jimmy Dikes Barnes helped The counter was at the back. The stock counters were built in 58-59 and as well as the paneling in the back and the separation of the back room from the front part of the store. T And I remember we left it laying on t Another t