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Farmer Dennis Bryan, of Fairview Township relies on the honor system to sell sweet corn out of his 1978 Chevy pickup. His family has been selling sweet corn since the early 1960s.
Farmer keeps family's sweet corn stand going for 60 years

Dennis Bryan's 1978 Chevrolet three-quarter-ton pickup truck doesn't go far anymore. Because of it's farm-exemption sticker, it is still legal to drive it on the road between dawn and dusk, but mostly it sits in his driveway.

That's because Bryan uses the truck as sweet corn storage for people who drop by his driveway at 1350 Hooker Road in Fairview Township to pick up a dozen or so ears. They can help themselves to the plastic bags on the lowered tailgate and leave their money in the coffee can in the truck bed.

“We turned it into our corn stand for at least the past 10 years,” said Bryan.

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