Pop in the Wine Cellar

Remember the two "fruit" cellars, in the back of the basement at Truesdale? The one was home to canned goods, lots of tomatoes, Bartlett pears, eggplant in oil, dried sausage in oil, and peppers (hot). Those pears came from that tree in the back yard every other year. By the way can you name another yard on earth that had a Bartlett pear tree, a plum tree, a Bing cherry tree (I spent half the summer in that tree) and a peach tree all actively growing in it? I digress.

The other fruit cellar was larger and had been the wine cellar in days gone by. The parts of those vintages were still in that room.

Before Christmas every year, Uncle Morris would show up with a Coke truck and unload cases (like 25 of them) of pop and would stack them in the aforementioned fruit cellar. It was always very cool in there, thus the logic was they would be cold and ready to drink whenever needed (for the soon to come holiday gatherings).

I think the other thought was by putting the soda and mixers in there, they would be safe from a certain young boy.

They were wrong...