The weather has been a scorcher this summer, reminding me of how good snow cones tasted when I was a boy. My father, T.J. Sanders owned Sanders Food Store in the early 1950's on the corner of S. Dallas Street and Crockett Street. The big seller was crushed ice and block ice during the summers.
Dad decided to expand into the snow cone business the summer of 1953. The old Methodist church had been to…
