The stall, which sells fruit from Glenvale Orchards in Ripponvale, will close next month after its lease was not renewed, orchard and stall owner Robby Jones said.
While he admitted to being "gutted" when he was first given the news last summer, his attitude had softened since.
"It's time to move on. To be honest, I can't wait to crank up the digger and knock it over.
"Who knows? I might get to spend more time on the Harley."
Mr Jones, who co-owns the orchard and stall with his wife Annie, began by selling vegetables there, before he bought the orchard 36 years ago.
"Then we started with cherries and then slowly planted the whole orchard to suit the stall."
Over the years, he and his wife made many friends from their regular customers.
"Some people have been coming here since they were little kids. I look at them now and think I must be getting old.
"I had hair when I started."
Many of their customers were shocked when they heard the couple's lease had not been renewed.
"They can't believe we're closing [the stall]." The stall's construction had a touch of a No 8 wire approach about it, Mr Jones said.
"It was initially an old tractor packing case and we just slowly added bits on.
" It's been said before - it's held together by barbed wire and chewing gum."
It was one of the last fruit stalls in the Cromwell area that relied on an honesty box for payment, he said.
Not that everyone was always honest, as a security camera often testified: "There was one girl, she really loaded herself up. I hope she fed her kids with some of it.
"At the start, we never had anything flogged.
"But there's no typical thief. It takes all sorts."
Today, about 20% of the fruit for sale would be stolen, he said, which just pushed the price up for those who paid.
The stall's closure will not be the end of fruit sales from Glenvale Orchards.
A shop has been built on the orchard and fruit will continue to be sold out of vans in Arrowtown, Frankton and Wanaka, and a chiller in Wanaka.
