Port Clinton Peanut Shop

Port Clinton Peanut Shop
Route 61
Port Clinton, Pennsylvania
submitted by: “wendyvee”

Last weekend, while out wandering around Schuykill County, I happened upon the Port Clinton Peanut Shop. I couldn’t help but find the nearest u-turn on the divided highway so that I could circle back!

 
The Peanut Shop is located beside the Port Clinton Hotel (an early 1800s hotel/tavern that served as a stagecoach stop, a Schuylkill Canal landmark, and now serves Appalachian trail hikers and area tourists). Though all that remains of Port Clinton are a few dozen houses, four-lane Route 61 runs right smack on top of it which makes taking pictures of the front of the Peanut Shop a dangerous business. (Oh, and before anyone makes fun of me for parking so far away from the curb and so close to the highway … there was a good-sized trail of broken glass along the curb for the entire stretch … Yes, Slicks, I’m talking to you … I can read your mind.)

This little shop is such a roadside delight! From the old-fashioned double door/double screen entrance, to the wooden floors, to the huge variety of candy (both new and old-fashioned)! If you are ever in the area, you just have to stop. Pictures don’t do it justice … and the ladies who work there are as hospitable as can be.

I imagined all of the generations of little noses pressed up against the glass counter – picking out their favorite goodies.

 

Candy cigarettes … you don’t see these around often anymore!

 

How cool are these vintage metal/canvas shopping totes … 

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Tags: candy, peanuts, Pennsylvania, wendyvee

2 Responses to “Port Clinton Peanut Shop”

1. Mod Betty / Retro Roadmap says:

   September 13, 2010 at 4:48 pm

   OMG that place looks adorable!

   Reply
2. Fuzzygalore says:

   September 14, 2010 at 6:32 am

   This place is so cute!

   I actually wandered in there a few years ago when my Triumph was being worked on at Hermy’s just up the block. It was like a candy colored port in the storm

   Thanks for sharing!

   Reply