Here’s the story of a little general store in Utica, Wisconsin (I’m too lazy to Google the location, so you do it), that’s been open since 1872. It’s located out on a county road intersection with a few other buildings, and it has somehow stayed open for 137 despite, you know, all them nasty evil big box stores and whatnot. From JSOnline …

• The siding is wood, the roof is tin and the beer sign stuck in the window is illuminated at midday.
• Outside, there is a single gas pump and a modest front porch that once accommodated shoppers loading up horse-drawn carriages.
• Step inside through double doors that swing open and you step back in time, to a world of handwritten prices on cereal boxes and Norwegian flatbread on shelves.
• The Utica Country Store is a threadbare throwback. It's nothing fancy, just a one-stop shop in this one-shop town in Dane County, at the corner of County Road B and County Highway W.

From the article, it sounds like the store's just barely hanging on, but hang it does. Are there any business around here with that kind of age? Seems like Eau Claire’s East Side Hill’s Timm’s Dairy (so many apostrophe s’s!) was the last true general in the area (politely correct me if I’m wrong) but that’s gone.

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