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Mom and pop grocery was more than a business
By: Bowie County Life - Texarkana Gazette

Staff photo by John Fooks
Posing with her guard dog Sassy, Dorothy “Dot” Upton, owner of the former Dot’s Grocery and Bait Shop in Old Boston, Texas, recalls that she let everything go when she closed the store in 1999. However, she kept the bait shop sign known to fishermen throu...
OLD BOSTON, Texas—There are only two poles remaining, giving no clue that the house behind the poles was once a grocery store.
But local residents who have been around a decade or so remember.
The little girl growing up across the road and who bought candy there whenever she co...
Published: 12/26/2012
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