My Stuckey’s story began in 1955 when I was 5 and my dad and mom, Ed and Jan Sanders, left Eastman, Georgia and became the managers of store #49 in Glasgow, Delaware on US Route 40 between Baltimore and Philadelphia. So, I literally grew up in a Stuckey’s store and have way too many stories I could tell about that time and experience. I began pumping gas, working the snack bar, stocking shelves, running the register and of course cleaning rest rooms around age 12. When I-95 opened in 1963 (John Kennedy cut the ribbon at the Delaware-Maryland line at...
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My Stuckey’s story began in 1955 when I was 5 and my dad and mom, Ed and Jan Sanders, left Eastman, Georgia and became the managers of store #49 in Glasgow, Delaware on US Route 40 between Baltimore and Philadelphia. So, I literally grew up in a Stuckey’s store and have way too many stories I could tell about that time and experience. I began pumping gas, working the snack bar, stocking shelves, running the register and of course cleaning rest rooms around age 12. When I-95 opened in 1963 (John Kennedy cut the ribbon at the Delaware-Maryland line at I-95 one week before he was killed in Dallas) traffic on Route 40 dried up and business at that Stuckey’s store also dried up (at one time it was one of the busiest stores in the Stuckey’s chain). Therefore, we moved back to Eastman in 1965 and Dad became a district manager and later a regional manager for Stuckey’s. During high school I, and some of the other family, traveled with Dad during the summers to open or close stores all over the country. I worked for some time with Ruth Williams at the store in Eastman during high school. When I graduated from high school and was attending Georgia Tech Dad had me travelling the country during the summers running stores where managers might be on vacation or a change was taking place in the manager of the store. I went to such places as Yee Haw Junction and Kissimmee, Florida, stores in Georgia, Virginia, Louisiana, Winnie, Texas and others. Stuckey’s helped to fund my college education and obviously was an integral and important part of my life....
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