Carpenter Hardware
Nov 28, 2020 10:00:19 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
PixelStan77 wrote:
I agree with your sentiment. I miss those days also. Was able to buy 1 because I needed one. Now I need to buy a poly bag with 10. What was was.
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Stan
Nov 28, 2020 10:00:42 #
Kleindorferās in Bloomington is like that. If they donāt have it, you donāt need it š
Nov 28, 2020 11:56:16 #
A10 wrote:
Nice shot and history. In Columbus we had a hardware store much the same with floor to ceiling pieces and parts. Lost it to downtown renovation around 1971.
Thanks--miss those old places.
Nov 28, 2020 11:57:02 #
Cwilson341 wrote:
Nice lighting on this classic structure! Very nice, nostalgic shot!
Thanks, Carol--appreciate the comment.
Nov 28, 2020 11:57:25 #
Nov 28, 2020 11:58:22 #
RoswellAlien wrote:
Kleindorferās in Bloomington is like that. If they donāt have it, you donāt need it š
Itās nice to know thereās still one around somewhere.
Nov 28, 2020 12:28:55 #
Nov 28, 2020 13:08:19 #
Nice shot. Despite the fact I have lived in California since 1972 I still consider myself a Hoosier. We generally try to find those classic hardware stores when we come back to visit. In ā76 we bought an old time hardware store in a small town along Hwy 101. It had an inventory of left over HVAC, plumbing and electrical contracting supplies - ADH Company. Eventually it became a True Value Hardware store and is now ACE Hardware with a new owner. Times change.
Nov 28, 2020 13:18:27 #
Nov 28, 2020 13:19:13 #
Thruxton wrote:
Nice shot. Despite the fact I have lived in California since 1972 I still consider myself a Hoosier. We generally try to find those classic hardware stores when we come back to visit. In ā76 we bought an old time hardware store in a small town along Hwy 101. It had an inventory of left over HVAC, plumbing and electrical contracting supplies - ADH Company. Eventually it became a True Value Hardware store and is now ACE Hardware with a new owner. Times change.
Thanks for taking a look. Times do indeed change.
Nov 28, 2020 13:26:44 #
jaymatt wrote:
The former Carpenter Hardware building in Cammack,... (show quote)
I'm with you all the way on this post John! Institutions of this sort deserve to he honored with our photographic attention, well done.
Phil
Nov 28, 2020 14:44:54 #
Great shot and fantastic story John. I used to love roaming around hardware stores to see if I could find anything I could convert to a medical device. One of my most successful was a tumor fixation screw which was simply a 5mm thick wood screw with a 30 cm stainless rod handle used in laparoscopy. It never made money since it was reusable and indestructible!
Nov 28, 2020 15:16:15 #
rockdog wrote:
I'm with you all the way on this post John! Institutions of this sort deserve to he honored with our photographic attention, well done.
Phil
Phil
Thanks, and I couldnāt agree more.
Nov 28, 2020 15:17:10 #
Nov 28, 2020 16:14:32 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
John thanks for a great post. I am sure many of us remember buying nails at our local hardware store. You would approach a multi-tier large lazy susan contraption that stood about head high with bins full of different size nails, 10 ld, 8 ld, or 10 penny, 8 penny for example. You would get a brown paper bag from nearby and would use a short handled bent fork to rake up the nail and put them in the brown paper bag. When you got what you wanted, you'd go to the counter and pay by the pound. When the old hardware stores closed, we lost an important part of our shared culture.
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