You just gotta love Texas. This is what we're all about. I sure hope it doesn't change

Love you Texas. Please don’t ever change

That's why i love Texas whit all my heart ,texas people are the best and hard working ,God bless texas and Texans.

God Bless Texas FROM JULY 2020

I was born in and grew up in Boerne but when i moved to Kendalia for 2 years, me and my mom would stop off in Bergheim almost every day after school on the way back home. I would always get a bag of chips and a glass bottle coke because that was one of the few places around there to find one lol

Nice to see the old American Traditional way of life still alive. God bless Mr. Engle. Tank you very much for sharing this.

This is great to see! I remember my dad driving from Blanco, Texas just to buy hats and his Wrangler slim fit jeans there. He once bought me a hair dryer there that I still have and still works. IT'S 33 YEARS OLD AND STILL WORKS!

@raysova7666

3 жыл бұрын

@ Lulu Gonzalez, do u still have the receipt ?

@terriaustill2211

3 жыл бұрын

Lol Ray... I still have make mirror with lights on both sides. Still works,70's, and a blow dryer. How funny. But not funny, the way VERY expensive things don't last these last few years...

Good store. I’m surprised you knew about Moon Pies. Good story. THIS IS AMERICA !!

How inviting. A simpler place and time. The world needs more of this in this day and time.

I truly remember the place, I been there before when I was very young and I met the man that owns the place...

Wish there were more places like this still around

@ashlit08

3 жыл бұрын

With the way the cities have become, maybe folks will return to the great small towns that we came from.

Tell Wal-Mart to take a hike. This is a real store. God bless Texas.

Great to see a small business thriving and still valued in the community.

@MTknitter22

4 жыл бұрын

When we travelled from our W Texas home on trips last 8 years, we saw these kind of people are all over flyover country that the media ignores! We went in cafes, 100 yr old stores, old gas stations lovingly cared for and charming town squares with American flags. Good American God loving hard working big 💕 people. America is blessed ya’ll

@texaswildcat2000

3 жыл бұрын

Closed in Feb 2019...permanently

@AulaniMaria

3 жыл бұрын

@@texaswildcat2000 Yes, Stanley & Charlene retired. I was sad to see it go, but really happy for them, they are great people. (I'm the lady who used to bring them the mail)

@texaswildcat2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@AulaniMaria There is getting to be fewer and fewer places like this still thriving...wish someone had been around to take over the operation of the biz, keep it going.....

Sure sounds like a Great place to live GOD BLESS y'all and American 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Bob Phillips, I heard years ago that you had kicked the bucket! I started watching you mostly because my dad liked watching you (and suddenly I get all emotional), but that was when you worked for Channel 4 (KRLD), I believe it was, and your little segments were know all over as "4 Country Reporter!" Then something happened, I don't know what it was, but suddenly you branched out on your own, and became "Texas Country Reporter", and all this time I was thinking you were at least 10 years older than I am, until I just Googled you up, and found out you're only 3 years older than I am! I'll turn 66 this coming September 19th! Well it felt good to find you here on KZread, so take care, and stay safe on them old Texas Highways! I know how bad they can get, because I used to drive trucks, and I've been to every corner or Texas, and the US!...👍🚛🇺🇸

What a great story. There was a general store like this in Porter, TX we went to when I was a little one to pick up the mail and get a coke for a nickel from the coke machine...great memories.

@MTknitter22

4 жыл бұрын

So Awesome!

I've lived just 3 miles from Bergheim for twenty years. Sorry to report the Jones family has sold the property, but that also means a well-deserved rest for Stanley and Charlene. A small business campus seems to be emerging there now, but without much change to the buildings, at least so far. Since the store itself is a state-recognized historic place, I imagine it will be preserved. On the other hand, the nearby intersection of TX 46 and FM 3351 is being rapidly developed. It's not unrealistic to think that the day is not far off when this quaint little spot will be just another San Antonio suburb. Why do people flock to the Hill Country to live like sardines in densely packed subdivisions of tract homes? There are at least a half dozen other places in Texas where they can live like that, not destroy any natural beauty, AND be closer to the big city amenities they seem to love so much. Sigh ....

@CrimsonThorns

3 жыл бұрын

Bitter - that is what has happened to Fredericksburg [Fritztown] 😕....big time business folks taking over and filled with crzy tourists....

@donsisco7118

3 жыл бұрын

I myself grew up down the road, move away, a quite a few years later I drove there to see how our old house and to my surprise the traffic was Crazy. How things change. Maybe this weekend I'll make my final drive to visit the old Store.

@benniebarrow348

2 жыл бұрын

With the natural beauty of the area and the flight of city dwellers, for reasons of overcrowding and political decay in their previous cities, these places soon become the very thing they fled. So sad to see the spoilage of quaint peaceful communities due to all the craziness going on. Enjoy while you have it.

@AVToth

8 ай бұрын

It's odd that corporations who cram climate change down our throats, leave their huge carbon footprints all over the hillcountry when they choose, out of 50 states, to move their corporation to one of the hottest places in the country. Seems pretty damn hypocritical to me. They helped create the circumstances they're running from. If climate change was an actual thing, they wouldn't have moved, along with a ton of employees, to a place where the power usage will be quadrupled. I think they know the truth. CO2 isn't a problem. As the earth spins, it flings all that extra CO2 right out the hole in the ozone. Thank you spray cans and freon.

Stanley seems like he's a great guy I would like live there

@ratherbfishing455

3 жыл бұрын

There are huge subdivisions there

@raysova7666

3 жыл бұрын

Water gets expensive too.

I miss the store, but it has reopened recently as a meat market and seems to be doing well. So thankful they kept the building and the house still looks beautiful.

sweet, there were stores that had credit where I once lived

"Credit makes Enemies. Let's be Friends" ~ Old Route 66 sign

I suffer from severe clinical depression, and Im not having a good day. So, Im going to leave it here and continue to watch this channel.

@1ivannthegreat

3 жыл бұрын

You sound just like me, when I’ve also been working for a Clinic for almost 9 years though but I don’t lack to much from depression. I’ll just try keep my self updated and upright with all of the Happy things that keeps me alive.

This video gave me goose bumps ..................for all the thoughts it brought to mind being a native 56 yr old Texan 🙏🤠🤗 thank you for bringing this stuff to us!!

I've been in country stores all over the state from Rio Medina to Buda, Refugio to Kress. Loved every one of them. I rarely pass up an opportunity to visit one. I always find something I have to have.

Just went here today 6/14/2021. Thank you Stanley for your help!

It's nice to see there's some mom and pop stores still around.

Cool story, beautiful tradition.

Love from New Braunfels, TX! ❤️. We’re practically next door neighbors!

So cool 👍 I would love to visit that store.

That's a faithful man,this community.

Love to read the comments of people that lived there or steal their. Love you on RFD TV From GA

My grandfather started a store in McCook Texas back in the 40,s. McCook Mercantile is the name of it and my cousin runs it today. They still have in store credit , You can get a 12” crescent wrench and a six pack of beer any day. The town of McCook today has two grain elevators and a church. Farming and ranching is mainly what makes it .

@sal1701

3 жыл бұрын

Small world, I lived at the 7 mile line & conway right behind El Chaparral store. As long as I had lived there, I never knew about your grandfathers store. But I guarantee my next trip to go see my sister ( she lives in Alton) I will go out to McCook and stop by there.

So sad that this store closed. It was a great place to visit. They really did have everything!

@snepNL

3 жыл бұрын

Do you know why they closet??

@harrisonmantooth3647

3 жыл бұрын

@@snepNL I'd be interested in knowing also. I remember a small Mom & Pop store close to where I lived as a lil Button. I can still see with my minds eye, mom or dad signing the little slip of paper that had their items and prices listed. Good ol' days.

@snepNL

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrisonmantooth3647 if you look for the store on fb you will find the info. It had something to do with their retirement.

@harrisonmantooth3647

3 жыл бұрын

@@snepNL 👍 Thanks, I appreciate your tip but, I don't go on Facebook. KZread is about the limit of my socializing.

@snepNL

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrisonmantooth3647 you dont have to login to check it out i think. I dont like fb too but i was so curious that ive checked it out.

Love the hill country, God bless everyone.

Thank you sir appreciate the video I do hope your family still running that store a hundred years from now. And thank you great state of Texas. I came out from San Francisco California two years ago. I swear I work 8 days a week since I've been here I love it. And I did not bring any of that wacko crap with me. The last two years in Texas have been the best in the last 20

I love my country. It’s called Texas.

WHAT A KIND GENTLEMAN...KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK...GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

Wow this is one of my favorites the first shot that you see that old stone block that he had the newspapers on that was the entrance to the store you can see is worn from hundreds of years how many people walked in and out of that store

Thanks TEXAS for votin for DJT45------again in 2020.

A community build on trust. Well done to you and the family in your town.

It's good to hear about places like this that are still going.

Grew up with a place like this near by.. It's nice to see these little places exist today.

My grand parents owned a county store in Freedom NH and I spent my summers there with them. My grandfather could do just about anything, in the back of the store he had a butcher shop, and deli, on the side of the store there was an area where he could work on cars. He also was on the fire dept, drove a school bus, and my grandmother ran the store, PO, and was the town clerk. When my Grand father died they closed the school and had to use the buses to transport people to and from the church because there was no room to park for miles.

@liveoak144

3 жыл бұрын

He was well-loved and a treasure. That's quite a bit of interesting history. Sounds like it would make a good book.

I remember this story and STILL LOVE this! 🇺🇸 My Grandparents were born in 1903!! OH I hope he continues this thru to the NEXT GENERATION 😍🙏🤩 OH if I were there I would shop there!! 🤠

This is great! I love how they kept the original store front! And all the old fashioned things.

Thanks. I never thought that area would grow so fast! A friend lives in Bergheim and her mail goes through Boerne now.

I like all the little stores in the hill country and also in Corpus Christi!

Stanley, you look wonderful! A great profile of a great family. My kids still talk about visiting the Bergheim store and getting a YooHoo. We love you, still!

My kind of place!

This store closed. I'm sure the building will be preserved.

@terriaustill2211

3 жыл бұрын

Oh no, why???? I'm from Montana, we had store credit up there in the 70's. Some small towns will as long as it's private owned not a franchise like 7-11 etc. I would love to have a store like this. In Montana they would also sell a few jeans shirts work socks.. my heart goes out to the family.

@Anthony-ot8vl

3 жыл бұрын

@@terriaustill2211 Fortunately they'll keep the building since it's historic.

@terriaustill2211

3 жыл бұрын

@@tweevers2 goodness, what a treasure chest!!!

@AulaniMaria

3 жыл бұрын

@@terriaustill2211 Stanley & his wife retired so they could spend more time with their grand babies. The building has been preserved & is now a wonderful meat market. I was sad for us, but really happy for them. (I'm the lady in the story that brought them the mail)

@terriaustill2211

3 жыл бұрын

@@AulaniMaria yes,thank you for posting! Life does move forward, good things.... God blessu u hun!

That is the way life should be today

@1ivannthegreat

3 жыл бұрын

You got that right, when the Problem with people is that it seems like if they don’t have much time in themselves and are rushing nowadays, when yes Time is just going to fast.

This is awesome!

This is awesome. I love how it is still old. We have a local Amish store that was real small, crowded and dark. Just real old fashioned. Well that have done so well they bought a new store because of the tourist and not it is wide open, new, and bright. All the charm that us locals loved about it is gone.

I remember going into that store when I was a kid... Hasn't changed a bit...wow!

Beautiful Story

Fantastic Mr,bergheim,for that we need to maintain our postmasters alive,count with me,Manny Eagle,the Grapfhic Reporter.n.c.

More jeans in the Bergheim shop than in my wallmart. Cool job.

I met Stanley in the 1980's when I drove truck cross country ..... I liked to stop and eat at Boerne at the motel cafe (what was name of that? ....was it cascades?) ....then I would go out of my way to stop in to buy small stuff .....reminded me of my Grandfather's old store and they made me feel to home

@DeeMoback

4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I ate at that two-story place over in NewBraunfels and cut across and stop in and then get on I-10 again ..... LOL ..... good memories .....a welcome distraction to an otherwise lonesome monotonous trip.....usually next stop was GilaBend when going west ....(nothing out there either....lol)

Nice story. Nice to see something that hasn't changed in America.

Awesome 👌

Awesome!!

Fascinating

That alone is enough to make a person want to move to Texas. I hope it stays around for another 100 years.

This is so beautiful

I remember working in that area and they would prepare and sale ham and bologna sandwiches. I'll never forget that.

I pass through there every time I go to Bandera. It's so small, if you blink you can miss it. Never went in the store. Next time I will.

I go by there on 281north up from San Antonio. I'm going to drop by

Next time I'm on Hwy. 46 I'll stop by. I've seen the place but never knew it's history.

He looks quite a bit like the late actor "George Kennedy" Blessings to y'all from a fellow Texan.

1903...way to go..hope for many more years

I love them old country store lobe it

These people should go to Noonday Texas to the Blue Top store. It’s got the best little cafe in Texas there. Hamburgers like you’ve never seen. And they sale steak dinners right over the counter. It’s little but it’s one of the best cafes in the world. Check it out sometime.

Would gladly bring this guy two burgers from the grill, baked beans, and potato salad.

God BLESS you.

Kind of reminds me of Niederwall,Tx back in the early 1960's

Amazing

Have you got an R C Cola and a bannaner Moon Pie ? Gotta love it ! ⭐

Awesome!

Would love to visit.

this is North of San Antonio Highway 281 you take a left to get to Bergheim

Sadly, the Bergheim Store has closed permanently. I believe the family that used to own the store has sold it. Last time I went by there, it was some sort of food and drink establishment.

Up in Canada we had stores like this in small communities. They died out in the 70's and 80's. It used to be so quiet inside them, just the squeaky wood floors made noise.

Wow nice 👍

❤

There used to be at least 8 stores like this in communities across Houston County. They were forced out of business by the Environmental controls on the gasoline tanks they had to have to comply to Federal rules, and Walmart. Simply cost too much to redo the tanks and pumps for them to afford.

Im moving there too

You& me both Sir, the world is moving way to fast these days!

In store credit, the bank of trust

I want to work there.

i live in this area and come here to usually get bate for fishing

good luck

the store is closing. went there January 19,2019 reall y sad

@hatcher2262

5 жыл бұрын

I stop by there 2 months ago....☹️

Yea mom and pop so much close knit stores. Friendly people day in and day out. Walmart so big so empty 10 minutes to find an "employee " so I just left ,,,,, I go there "MAYBE" 3 OR 4 TIMES A YEAR.🤔😮

reminds me of Montgomery Texas

I think this is what Alan Jackson meant when he sang “small town southern man”

social progress is vital, but some things work just fine how they are. small town general stores are slowly being eradicated by big boxers

I love how they play this off as a small town - it's literally 5-6 miles from the northern city limit of San Antonio, and 30 miles to downtown!

@dtaylor939

2 жыл бұрын

Ronald have you ever been to the riverwalk in San Antonio?

If Bob moves there I’m leaving. 😂

Hey is it possible to get a copy to an old story you did on my relative in San Augustine, Tx

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