KSKansas field entry
Country Corner Variety
Oskaloosa, KS
An Oskaloosa variety store where breakfast and lunch meet an old-time soda fountain, popcorn, gifts, Hallmark cards, flowers, local goods, consignment merchandise and tuxedo rentals.
Country Corner Variety bundles a small-town café and soda fountain together with gifts, cards, flowers, locally made goods, consignment merchandise and a grab bag of practical services that normal retailers stopped combining decades ago.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Breakfast counter, lunch café, soda fountain, popcorn shop, gift store, card shop, florist, consignment store, local-maker market, variety store, and tuxedo-rental service.
The store feels less like one retail category than a surviving small-town answer to whatever customers happen to need.
Country Corner Variety sits on the Oskaloosa square and continues an older model of small-town retail in which unrelated errands can happen at the same counter. Current business material combines breakfast and lunch with an old-time soda fountain, popcorn, gifts, Hallmark cards, flowers, locally made and U.S.-made goods, consignment merchandise and other variety-store items. Current formalwear-retailer material also confirms that tuxedo rental remains active, adding an especially unexpected service to the mix.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Old-time soda fountain
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Popcorn
- Gifts
- Hallmark cards
- Locally made merchandise
- U.S.-made merchandise
- Consignment
- Flowers
- Tuxedo rentals
- Oskaloosa town-square location