The perfect hardware store?

[erikpolcrack]

The country general store just a mile or two from our farm has a really good but small hardware section. It's designed for the 'cabin people' that infest our area. The hardware variety is wide but not deep, aiming to have a couple of everything you might need to repair/replace common household failures and burn-outs. They also have an official if walk-in closet-sized post office. A couple of villages over has a big, family-owned, old-fashioned hardware store which still lets you mix a bag of various fasteners/screws/bolts/nails and pay by the pound.

 

[Faulkner]

We have one of those in our community, pot bellied stove and all.

 

[NYlakesider]

In my area we have a hardware store that was started in 1885.

You need it they have it. The biggest supply of handles to fit just about any shovel, sledge, axe you can think of. People behind the counter that knew their extensive stock and plenty of good advice on doing projects.

Years back they added a plumbing and electrical repair shop. Now have a few service trucks. Plenty of work up here as they turn on/turn off many of the flatlanders camps for the seasons.

Well original store is still there but now a couple more buildings, they added a tool rental outfit, and a couple other ventures. Funny thing the prices have went up since the new owners took over.

They still have good people at the hardware store. To this day it amazes me on how well they know their stock. As a kid I worked for a local hardware store in Albany and the amount of product was small compared to this store.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Kaffe-Frederick in Natchitoches, Louisiana. If ya know ya konw.

 

[mtgianni]

Our local hardware store has one of anything and three of nothing. The only exception is fasteners.

 

[Rustyt1953]

One with a bar.

 

[pasound]

Pile Hardware in Charleston WV.

 

[zeke]

has black cherry soda and birch beer in a cooler close by the check out

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Sometimes.....Looking Back.......Makes you smile more so than looking forward.

 

[Birdgun]

As a boy, I remember us kids going to our local hardware store to buy our marbles. They had a big bin with marbles in it of varying sizes and styles (cat-eyes, swirls, solids, purees, etc.).

A few years ago I walked into a small town's family owned hardware store and they had a marble bin. I bought some marbles! Shame kids don't play marbles anymore.