Remember When?

Signboard outside Kirkland's tobacco shop

Cigar boxes for $7 or 2 for $10

Getting ready for the new elementary school year always involved a trip to Max Cannon's cigar store on Main Street in London. He gave us cigar boxes for the school supplies we kept in our desks at school. They were just the right size. I wonder how many boxes Mr. Cannon gave away every year. 

Cannon owned the business for about 45 years. After the store closed, the contents were donated to the Madison County Historical Society and the shop was recreated at the museum. Pauline Persing wrote about this on her blog. Check it out here. In her blog post there's a picture of newspaper boys and the turkeys they received from Mr. Cannon. Uncle David Holton is one of those boys. 

Phyllis Doyle Burns wrote a poem about her cigar box and its school supplies. Click here 

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I wonder - Did Dad buy his pipes and tobacco at Cannon's? I don't remember his going there.