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W. L. Coker's New River General Store, TN Hwy. 116, Anderson County.Blog note: I'm re-posting this blog entry about what I thought was a little-known store in a remote place on a lightly-traveled highway because it generated such a surprising and unusual number of page views and comments.In 1937 (the year of my birth!) W.L Coker and his wife Belle built a two-story brick building on a remote stretch of gravel road in east Tennessee's mountainous Anderson County. The first floor was a general store, and the Cokers had living quarters on the second floor.I can't imagine how the business survived, but there was a great deal of coal mining activity in the area in those day, so the store apparently did okay. It's still very much in business, now operated by a Coker grandson, although he does supplement his income by driving a school bus. The Blue & White Service Station next to Coker's Store.The Blue & White Service Station, located beside the Coker store, is kinda dilapidated these days,…