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Do you remember when....
Weighing in at about 20 lbs. flour bags with little flower designs on them spurred the memories of Maynita Weatherly. "We used to use those bags for tea towels and quilts," Weatherly said. During the Great Depression, when Weatherly was a child, many in Thomasville struggled, and it was not uncommon to use the cloth flour bags for clothing, or tea towels or bed covers, once the flour was used up. "We were glad to have the sacks with nice material and the designs on it," she said. "My grandmother made sheets out of them, but when granddaddy got sick, she would take them off the bed and pull out the good covers before calling the doctor over so he wouldn't see the sacks." Others in town, like Maydell Anderson said they also rememberd the sacks from their youth. "My father worked in Pine Hill, and growing up in the depression, we didn't have much," Weatherly said. "Mother would make the gathered skirts the girls would wear, and some people made undergarments out of them. If you saw two sacks that looked alike you got them." Feed sacks were also commonly used during that time to make clothes and other items after their use in holding feed was over.
Employees at Super Foods said they have had a number of customers have commented to them about the sacks, since they've been stocked.
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