Reminds me a bit of this place:
It looks like Apple Cabin Foods has spawned!
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- GHOST DUSTERS!
Who ya gonna call?*
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Oh, yes. Photograph everything, scan the packaging labels.
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My Nana had a tin of gooseberries dated best before march 1971 in her kitchen cupboard that had taken on the shape of a rugby ball that we found when she moved out of her house. She also attempted to smuggle a packet of Ritz crackers of similar vintage out to her new place under her cardigan. God, I miss her so much. She was great.
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That’s an amusing tall tale of the lady dying in there in 1963 and the doors being closed ever since then, but it has nothing to do with the place that we saw in the video. We saw a typical small-town museum with a very few items in quantity, such as the bars of Ivory soap. Everything else was one-of-a-kind, rather than the duplicate items you have with real store stock, and way way too clean to have been sitting out for 50+ years.
Darn it, I was hoping to see the thing described in the headline.
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That’s what we’re gambling on in my neck of the woods:
It’s looking promising. Fingers crossed.
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I think we should bring back tin packaging. Fight me.
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We just need to standardise them. That way they can be returned through a central system and you don’t have to keep track where you bought which brand’s special jar and which grocery store will take them back. That’s how beer bottles work in Germany. They’re all the same shape and can be returned anywhere.* Then they get washed and redistributed to breweries. All the branding is on the removable paper labels and the crates they come in.
*Yes, I know there are more and more exceptions
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Coca-Cola has a similar thing in Mexico, but including plastic bottles, though it’s not nearly enough. Too many non-reusable containers up for sale in stores right now.
The 1930s Payette Radio is anachronous for a 1963 store.
It takes up too much space and is too much investment in inventory for it to have been sitting as a regular item on the shelves for thirty years.
She may not have used today’s sales tracking software that calculates shelf space vs sales and other factors, but an old time general store manager probably had a keen sense of stocking what people need, and shifting the stuff that doesn’t budge.
There are too many items like that. It’s a museum of the store’s span of existence, not a 1963 snapshot of a working store.
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Interesting similar things for those seeking extentiental woos.
I’m also reminded of Scott’s Hut in Antarctica:
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yeah, one of the other commentators posted a CBC report on these guys from five years ago that fully acknowledged the nature of this place…it was the youtuber that embellished the story. There were a lot of general stores in B.C. around that time where you could experience the past, however. In the 1960s the road from Robson B.C. to trout lake , which was a very rough, narrow, and curvy dirt road had a general store that was like a trip to the 1890s. No A.C., galvanized washtubs, blue speckled enamel coffee pots, and collections of notions like in this video. As a ten year old I was very aware that it was anachronistic. Further up the road in Arrowhead there was a similar store where if you wanted a soft drink you had to buy a local bottler’s brand, didn’t get that big city stuff 
! Sadly both those places lost to the Columbia river project flooding.
The standardisation is key, but it’s also the hard part. Some companies (most obviously Coca-Cola) have invested heavily in bottle shape as part of their brand, but even apart from that, it would be hard to design a few standard containers that would work for every product. Beer, wine and milk all have more-or-less standard traditional bottle shapes, so it’s not uncommon for those to be reused – but ideally beer, wine and milk (and maple syrup, and shower gel…) would all use the same bottle, and that’s not so easy to organise.
Heineken once made bottles shaped like bricks that could be used for construction, which is a neat idea, and might even be practical, but of course it doesn’t work if it’s just Heineken doing it, or if they don’t commit to doing it for years. I guess that shows how ecology and capitalism are directly opposed, because even if companies genuinely try to be more sustainable, they still prefer to do it in a different way to their competitors.
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Thank goodness constipated fruit is now a thing of the past.
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I remember that well into the 1980s Band-Aids used to be sold in metal boxes – not sure when that stopped.
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Been there, seen the original stores and the snowshoes for the ponies.
The hut at McMurdo still has a seal carcass.
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I don’t know if this is practical, but it is in B.C. so perhaps relevant . I’ve been there, it’s actually a pretty nice place. I imagine the “R” value might be a little better than concrete, but I wouldn’t count on it .
Aspirin too.
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