Hill’s Store has been around longer than it’s current owner. Oscar grew up in the store, setting the stage for Todd to do the same, and his grandkids, and now his great-granddaughter, Mika is following the tradition. Here are a few of Oscar’s memories. On Growing Up...
As a kid in the 1970s, Christmas Eve meant going to Hill’s General Store for their prize drawings. Osler and Oscar Hill, and their wives Edith and Barbara, prepared all sorts of prizes, mostly candy and nick-nacks, so that everybody who entered won something. There...
Hill’s 50th Anniversary was an event for the entire community. Grandpa set up his cassette recorder and microphone near the space occupied by the office in today’s store. It was just past the pop cooler, and close to where we had set up free fountain drink station as...
Here’s the origin story of what was probably Todd’s most infamous nick name: Whistle Britches. WO was notorious for picking on the kids of the family, and I remember him trying to get my ire up by calling me by the same name, but it didn’t have the same effect as it...
Ralph reminisces about the earlier days of Hill’s General Store. Ralph’s memories cover 1952 presidential election, knife swapping, gathering around the stove, bringing his kids to the store, Wiffle ball games, the price of pop, gas wars, and more. Barbara Hill chimes...
