A Snapshot of the Good Old Days

The start of the Good Old Days and what they were like

The good old days began on August 4th 1842, when a gracious 72 year old woman stirred a pitcher of the finest lemonade ever known. Scarlett O’Hara had the good fortune to drink a glass from this pitcher when she was a child. Though most genealogists believe the old woman was Scarlett’s grandmother, no one knows this for sure. But we do know for sure that she lived in Georgia.

Nothing rivaled the lemonade in Georgia.

Now, you could also find some damn good lemonade in the neighboring state of South Carolina. Virginians liked to think they too made fine lemonade, and it was better than anything north of the Potomac.

But the best was in Georgia.

And people in the good old days really did drink their lemonade on a lazy, late summer afternoon on the front porch of their wooden house as their kindly old dog, usually a Labrador or a golden retriever, lay down by their feet.

It happened exactly like that. Just the way you've always pictured it.