Tommy Floyd drove a "peddlin' truck for Taliaferro Grocery in Smyrna.  He shares some of his experiences.

"Oh, they'd buy coffee, kerosene, coal-oil -- most people in the county didn't have electric lights then and they had kerosene for lights.  Well they called it coal-oil then, but it's kerosene now and they would by that. [Did you carry fabrics, dry goods of any kind?]  They would order that, if they wanted some material, they would tell you what to bring.....I'll tell you what, you know what a lot of people bought then would be printed feed sacks and of course I had them on the truck and they made dresses out of them."


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