barney would go down and get a soda pop
but a small southern town, i feel like the place would have been closed on sundays
dont you?
I wondered the same thing. A small town in early 60s would likely be closed up entirely, except for a gas station. And the dinner was open late too.
share At that time, stores across the country would be closed on Sunday. In the late sixties, major grocery stores (like the A&P) might be open for a few hours on Sunday. I know they were in our town. But everything else was closed. I remember because my parents were huge smokers and once in a while they would (gasp!) run out of cigarettes on a Sunday! It was a big panic moment. Where to get some smokes? They'd usually send my sister down to our grandmother's house a few blocks away to borrow a few cigarettes.
I'm familiar with the episode in question. But I haven't seen it in a long time. As I recall, I thought Barney said that he was going to walk down to the filling station to get a bottle of pop. Could be wrong though. But that's what I remember.
I assumed that there was a pop machine outside the filling station.
It crossed my mind the other day that we used to call them filling stations. I don't hear that anymore; it's always gas station - at least in my part of the country. Maybe I'll resurrect that term just to see the reaction I get. 😉