A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[HONDO74]

What is the roped/Buoyed area. Maybe a swimming area only ?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What is the roped/Buoyed area. Maybe a swimming area only ?

Yes; swimming only. And, that's some cold waster to swimming in, too.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Roy]

Even with the barrelled and boxed fresh produce, I'm bowled over by all the canned food.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Fabulous. I wonder what the rolled-up things are in the case on the left of the photo; also, is that - do you suppose - a kind-of "bunt" or ring-cake in there with the long narrow rolls ?

[healey36]

pepperoni in a blanket?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

pepperoni in a blanket?

Good answer.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder what the rolled-up things are in the case on the left of the photo

Some of the 47 varieties of local variants of bologna, salami, pepperoni that you can still experience in grocery stores in central Pa that cannot be found anywhere else in the world

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Buffalo & Susquehanna No 273

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I wonder what the rolled-up things are in the case on the left of the photo

Some of the 47 varieties of local variants of bologna, salami, pepperoni that you can still experience in grocery stores in central Pa that cannot be found anywhere else in the world

Thanks. Good to know.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder what the rolled-up things are in the case on the left of the photo

Some of the 47 varieties of local variants of bologna, salami, pepperoni that you can still experience in grocery stores in central Pa that cannot be found anywhere else in the world

Thanks. Good to know.

It's quite impressive and bewildering at times to visit the deli at some of these stores where there will be display case with such items in it while here in VA you cannot find any of them. Now and again I will buy a selection of 1/4lb of several just for the adventure.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That's interesting to read, Rufus, since I would have thought you would be among the first-in-line to abjure such delicacies as Genoa Salami, or pepperoni, or sausages (of any kind) given their visible fat content/ratio and propensity to cause damage to the circulatory system and heart. For years (back in the 70's), I used to treat myself once-a-week to Genoa Salami, black olives, provolone, and "Italian" white bread, purchased at a local Deli. However, once I heard about its deleterious effect on health, I quit, cold-turkey.

Any further wisdom on this, if you please?

[HONDO74]

B.B.DRUM Grocery Dept

Was there more to this store that just the grocery dept. ?

Interesting. this existed before the A&P changed the way we shopped for grocery's, also back when many American's were butchering their own chicken's, hogs and cows for meat. The meat products in the display probably didn't have all the chemicals they use today as preservatives.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

... the A&P changed the way we shopped for grocery's, also back when many American's were butchering their own chicken's, hogs and cows for meat. The meat products in the display probably didn't have all the chemicals they use today as preservatives.

I honestly don't think I could do something like that. The closest I came was as a boy, when my parents let me raise the three peeps I had gotten at Eastertime, in the basement, until they grew to being chickens and one rooster. Eventually, they were killed and presented at table. But I could not partake.

I've heard it said that grocery store meats are presented deliberately to look as little like being related to animals that walked around and had lives as possible, that the presentations of parts of them in neat plastic packaging, under cellophane covers, makes them look as much like confections, or even as toys, as possible. Maybe so.

[HONDO74]

I honestly don't think I could do something like that. The closest I came was as a boy, when my parents let me raise the three peeps I had gotten at Eastertime, in the basement, until they grew to being chickens and one rooster. Eventually, they were killed and presented at table. But I could not partake.

Number 1 rule.....You don't make pets out of animals you are going to eat. Farm kids learned that a long time ago.

We had a similar problem. When the kids were little we raised pheasants and quail and some chickens and ducks. We had an incubator so the kids got to watch them being born. We ended up trading the critters for other items or selling them to the Vietnamese in Garden Grove Calif. You just can't eat pets.

When we lived in Kansas we had the kids in 4H. One year they raised steers to show. After the show the animals are sold as the buyers with the trucks are there to take them to the slaughter house. I do remember seeing tears in their eyes as the animals were led away. They spent a lot of time withe the animals training them so they had become pets.

However the tears dried up when they got the check for their hard work. My daughter was 13 at the time. Fun watching a girl that only weighs around 110lbs leading a 1200 lb animal around the show ring