Coal & Coca-Cola
 | Amazon, 2007, Digital Customer Rating: 13 reviews Recommend |
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I have always admired my mother's bull dog determination as a divorced, single woman supporting herself and two kids through a business of her own as a professional baker. Against various types of odds for a woman in 1949, when my brother was around five-years-old, and I was two, our mother, Marge Hudnall, borrowed $6,000 from a local bank in her small town of Florence, Colorado (around 3,000 population at that time), opened a bakery, and repaid the loan in two years. Through that venture, she accomplished more than earning a living, as I discovered when I interviewed her for this story, and she automatically began recalling events which were news to me and almost news to her. I typed furiously, in my personal shorthand, as my Mom began talking, seeming to fall into a trance of her personal/professional history. For several non-stop hours, the interview flowed on its own so freely, I didn't have to pause typing to ask more than a few questions. Within the historic ambiance which Mom described in our interview, Sloppy Joe's were originated, in the 50's in The Malt Shop Bakery and Bus Depot in Florence, Colorado. Margie's bakery story, “COAL & COCA-COLA” proves the origin or that juicy sandwich and more. Read it while it steams, as an updated Amazon Short, placing it into the present of our New Millennium.
Title: Coal & Coca-Cola
Sales Rank: 1013787 in Books
Author: Linda G. Shelnutt
Publisher: Amazon, 2007-03-08, Digital, 18 pages
- Never Bet Against a Female Bulldog.
- This is a story about a woman in the 50's who borrowed $6,000 from a small town bank to start a bakery business to support 2 young children as a single Mom.
What I liked best about the story was the characters' positive attitudes and their willingness to overcome handicaps. Everyone involved in this story earned the bulldog name Linda gave her Mom,… More reviews
- chaotic writing style
- I was surprised to read that the author was a high school english teacher! Her story is full of typos, sentence fragments, and words that are capitalized when they don't need to be. Has she ever heard of telling a story in either first or third person? Why does the author feel the need to insert her opinion? Reading all her… More reviews
- Poignant Nostalgia
- Perusing this short story, I could almost taste the delightful goodies concocted in that bakery, and I could certainly inhale the scent...almost!
Ms. Shelnutt's descriptions are vivid, yet down-to-earth. When detailing the hardships her mother experienced in getting the bakery up and running in that downstairs basement, I could also feel the struggle and the determination.… More reviews
- The Majesty That Reposes In Ordinary People
- Linda Shelnutt apparently likes commas...I like dots, but we obviously share one very important thing in common, an abiding love for the stories of Ordinary People...a deep-seated realization that in the stories of the so-called ordinary or Common Person can be found all the creativity, courage and emotion worthy of ten 'celebrities' or 'big names' with their free passes to Big… More reviews
- A Wonderful Tribute
- I thoroughly enjoyed this heart felt tribute from daughter to mother. That may have been the intent of Linda Shelnutt when she wrote this story, but she, in essense, paid loving tribute to her whole family, her hometown and the way of life she grew up with. Way to go, Linda.
Joshua Berry
Author of Andrea's Dream… More reviews
