Trading Post, Karol’s Treats a Quitaque tradition

Historic Mobil station offers up goodies, gifts, photo ops for holidays

  • Trading Post, Karol’s Treats a Quitaque tradition
    Trading Post, Karol’s Treats a Quitaque tradition
  • COOK KAROL A descendant of longtime grocers in Quitaque, Karol Pigg transformed the old Mobil Station on Main Street into Karol’s Kountry Korner, moving her bakery operation into the back part of the store in 2019 when Melvin Cobb and Luis DeLosSantos established the Quitaque Trading Post in the front. | CAPROCK COURIER
    COOK KAROL A descendant of longtime grocers in Quitaque, Karol Pigg transformed the old Mobil Station on Main Street into Karol’s Kountry Korner, moving her bakery operation into the back part of the store in 2019 when Melvin Cobb and Luis DeLosSantos established the Quitaque Trading Post in the front. | CAPROCK COURIER
  • CHRISTMAS DESTINATION Along with Pigg’s baked treats and floral creations, the shop offers an array of collectibles and gifts, elegantly displayed. | COURTESY PHOTO
    CHRISTMAS DESTINATION Along with Pigg’s baked treats and floral creations, the shop offers an array of collectibles and gifts, elegantly displayed. | COURTESY PHOTO
The red-and-white former Mobil gas station and country store is a treasured landmark along Main Street in Quitaque (KITTY-kway, for the uninitiated)— but this season, it’s lighted in festive colors for the season. Baker and florist Karol Pigg, whose grandparents ran the store for decades before she moved her own gift and flower shop into it in the 1990s, welcomes visitors to stop in this weekend…

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