March 1952 (LEFT) And the Battle of the Candies begins.  Who can "out-South" the other -- Mary Ball?  Or the contender from Anniston, Mrs. Cora Saxon? How long do you suppose it took for kids to lose most of those  65 pieces? How funny - 60 years ago, that dowdy little grocery store at the corner of  Oxmoor and 31 in Homewood (now a Piggly Wiggly) was a "super-store."  It was my grandmother's store of choice to procure her foodstuffs. Let's just say that Your Webmaster never eats Mounds,  because he never feels that way. GO TO MARCH 1962 | RETURN TO "THIS MONTH" PAGE