Apparently, the last business located here was Randy’s Auto Mart, but Bonnie Murphy Eusner writes, via our Facebook page: This store was operated by Mr. Hall Bennett in the 50s and 60s. He was a hunting friend of my Dads. I thought,as a child, this was a huge store. My parents sometimes shopped there and Mr Bennett also had a butcher shop in the back. Children may have called him Mr. Hall in the southern tradition of speaking to an adult using their first name as a matter of respect. But his name was Hall Bennett. He had a son named Jerry Bennett. They lived further out toward the present by-pass on the same road that the store was on. My family has a picture of some of the local deer hunters of the early 50s surrounding a piebald deer killed in Ludowici GA. Mr Hall Bennett was among them. They were all dressed so smartly. No smiles Sort of looked like a posse. Picture is treasured. Mr Bennett was a big man and a really nice gentleman.

Judy Plymel remembered it by Mr. Bennett’s first name and also shared her memories: This used to be Hall’s Grocery, back in the day. Rich Oil used to be across from it. I use to go down here, get my grandma 3Thistle Snuff, peppermint pillows and a small bottle Coke, all for a quarter. This was back in the 60’s. They had oiled floors and a meat counter in the back. you could get your own cookies out of the canisters up front and Mr. Hall would let me go behind the counter and get my candy; it wasn’t wrapped but laid out fresh in the display.