Raymond Bial Bücher

Country Store to Corner Market: Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas offers an enjoyable, engaging, and enlightening look at country stores, from early dry goods and general stores to mom-and-pop markets, green grocers, bakeries, and butchers. The book traces the history of stores on the rural roadside and neighborhood groceries in the city. It continues to the Piggly Wiggly and other early supermarkets. The three states encompassed in the book cover a broad swath of land. It is a unique and varied region that stretches from the Gulf of Mexico to the Southern Plains and Arkansas Ozarks. Country Store to Corner Market weaves a popular history of these ventures from frontier times to the stores and markets of today. Mostly, it is a story of people and their common bond to their homeplace and each other. Through a fascinating array of captioned photographs of clerks, customers, farmers, and townspeople, this book emphasizes everyday life, from buying flour and sugar to visiting with a neighbor while waiting for the morning mail. Country stores and corner markets were once the gathering place for everyone in the community. Pull up a chair and enjoy these touching and occasionally humorous glimpses into the lives of your ancestors.

By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the escape of southern slaves to the North remains a compelling event in American history. Within the pages of this book are documented, in prose and elegantly articulate photographs, examples of "stations" on the Railroad, along with images of the routes, lives, and hardships of both the "passengers" and "conductors."

Life on the Lower East Side was bustling. Immigrants from many European countries had come to make a better life for themselves and their families in the United States. But the wages they earned were so low that they could afford only the most basic accommodations—tenements. Unfortunately, there were few laws protecting the residents of tenements, and landlords took advantage of this by allowing the buildings to become cramped and squalid. There was little the tenants could do; their only other choice was the street. Though most immigrants struggled in these buildings, many overcame a difficult start and saw generations after them move on to better apartments, homes, and lives. Raymond Bial reveals the first, challenging step in this process as he leads us on a tour of the sights and sounds of the Lower East Side, guiding us through the dark hallways, staircases, and rooms of the tenements.

Country Store to Corner New York offers an engaging and enlightening look at country stores from early dry goods and general stores to mom-and-pop markets. The book traces the history of stores on the rural roadside to neighborhood groceries in the city. It continues on to open-air markets with pushcarts crowded curbside, early supermarkets, and large city markets. The book encompasses a unique and varied region that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean high into the Adirondack Mountains. From small town to industrious metropolis, Country Store to Corner New York weaves a popular history of these ventures from colonial days to the bustling city markets of today. Mostly, it is a story of people and their common bond to their hometown, neighborhood, and each other. Through captioned photographs of storekeepers and customers, this book emphasizes everyday life from buying fresh fish and vegetables from a pushcart vendor to picking up sugar at a corner market while visiting with a neighbor. Country stores and corner markets were once the gathering place for everyone in small town and city neighborhood. So, stroll along rural roads and city streets, and enjoy these touching and sometimes humorous glimpses into the lives of New Yorkers when they were once young.

Country Store to Corner Market: Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas offers an enjoyable, engaging, and enlightening look at country stores, from early dry goods and general stores to mom-and-pop markets, green grocers, bakeries, and butchers. The book traces the history of stores on the rural roadside and neighborhood groceries in the city. It continues to the Piggly Wiggly and other early supermarkets. The three states encompassed in the book cover a broad swath of land. It is a unique and varied region that stretches from the Gulf of Mexico to the Southern Plains and Arkansas Ozarks. Country Store to Corner Market weaves a popular history of these ventures from frontier times to the stores and markets of today. Mostly, it is a story of people and their common bond to their homeplace and each other. Through a fascinating array of captioned photographs of clerks, customers, farmers, and townspeople, this book emphasizes everyday life, from buying flour and sugar to visiting with a neighbor while waiting for the morning mail. Country stores and corner markets were once the gathering place for everyone in the community. Pull up a chair and enjoy these touching and occasionally humorous glimpses into the lives of your ancestors.