Cole Full RR

Along US82 in Alabama between nowhere and nowhere, there was a closed General Store along the side of the road.  The thing that caught my eye was the 3 soda machines still outside and the full-length Coca-Cola sign on the roof.  

Being the South, the machines were RC Cola, Coca-Cola, and Dr. Pepper.  Pepsi wasn't missing though, there had been bottles in the Dr. Pepper machine if you were interested.  Ice cold bottles were priced 50 cents.. but unfortunately they were out of service!

I've found out that the store in Three Notch, Alabama used to be a railroad depot, which looking at it now I can see in the building underneath the later additions. Here is more about the history of three notch road.

The bathrooms were outside of course and probably had those great "reusable" blue towels on the rollers that I've always looked askew at for their "cleanliness".

The chairs under the awning and the bench outside call back to the days where the local general store would have been the place to on a hot summer day before harvest and the farmers would probably be talking about Alabama Football, politics, and the weather.

I like to imagine the place in it's railroad days when it would have been the center of the small community and I'm sure everyone came out to see the arrival of the train and who got off in their town or who was leaving town.