The Chronicles of The Shop Downtown

       It doesn’t look like much from the outside, the building is old and the front has one large glass window with a glass door beside it as the entrance. The old red paint is peeling and the sidewalk is decorated with vintage patio furniture, an old Antique coke cooler, some potted plants, many hand written signs on old chalk boards and dry erase boards, proudly spouting what you may find in this charming little shop downtown, for instance; homemade icecream, smoothies, sandwiches, antiques and ofcourse, coffee.
       This is the Shop Downtown coffee and eccentricities in the small little town of Schulenburg Texas.

       When naming the shop and adding eccentricities, I was mainly referring to all the eclectic antiques or odd old items you may find for sale or display along with all the yummy snacks and coffee, but little did I know at the time that the eccentricities would soon be referring to all the different people and personalities that would grace the door of the shop, sit upon it’s chairs and stools, visit and share their stories and lives within its old concrete walls.

       There are not many dull moments in the shop and some are so very colorful you may think that I must have a wild imagination and surely I am making these characters up as I go along.                   
      However, I could not take the credit for the entire flavor that these stories are full of and know that I could not have made up some of these characters if I had sat down and tried.            
      These people you will hear about, meet and enjoy are all real and have all on occasion or on a regular basis blessed the shop with their vigor, presence, laughter, tears and friendly banter and conversation.

       These are the chronicles of The Shop Downtown, and how one little tiny coffee shop full of eccentricities lures in from interstate I10 and the small surrounding towns, the most interesting of stories and people.