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3 unusual facts about hardware store


George C. Rickards

In 1877 he enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guard, and in 1881 he settled in Oil City, Pennsylvania, where he became active in the hardware business.

Mobile safety steps

Because they are very sturdy and easy to manoeuvre they have a wide variety of uses - for example in a warehouse (for safe order picking) DIY Hardware store and various types of factory; they can even be used as aircraft steps.

Surquillo

Due to its central position, Surquillo is a very commercially active district, havings several businesses, most of which are hardware and construction material shops.


It Bag

In the early 2000s the conceptual New York label Slow and Steady Wins the Race, founded by the Chinese-American designer Mary Ping, offered a range of consciously affordable bags deliberately based on It Bags by Balenciaga, Dior and Gucci, but made in inexpensive calico with metalwork from hardware stores mirroring the original bags' exclusive designer fittings.


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Allan Percy Brown

Brown left this position in 1961 to operate a hardware store in Pullman, Washington.

Bernard Osher

He spent his early years in southern Maine, owning and running a large hardware store on Main Street in Biddeford as well as a big summer amusement park called Palace Playland in nearby Old Orchard Beach.

Carseland, Alberta

It boasted six grain elevators, a railway station, school, general store, barber shop and pool-room, post office, restaurant, garage and Ford car dealer, well house, lumber yard, hardware store, meat market, bank, stock yards, two churches, hotel and community centre.

Danny Walsh

Born in the Cumberland mill village of Valley Falls, Walsh was a clerk in a Pawtucket hardware store before he entered bootlegging in 1920.

Heltonville, Indiana

Heltonville is the birthplace of former NBA basketball player, Damon Bailey, who now owns and manages a small local hardware store.

Home Hardware

On January 11, 2003, Home Hardware received unexpected worldwide exposure, when a T-shirt worn by Avril Lavigne during a performance on Saturday Night Live featured her hometown of Napanee, Ontario and the local hardware store there.

John Guzlowski

Growing up in Chicago's immigrant and DP neighborhoods, Guzlowski regularly interacted with Jewish hardware store clerks with Auschwitz tattoos on their wrists, Polish Cavalry officers who still mourned for their dead horses, and women who walked from Siberia to Iran to escape the Russians.

Kilcormac

The town offers a number of services to the local population including 2 primary schools, a vocational secondary school run by the VEC, a number of local grocery shops, butchers, clothes shop, doctors practice, chemist and an agricultural/hardware store.

Main Street to Broadway

The backstage story features Tom Morton, as an aspiring playwright who hopes to stage a Broadway production, Mary Murphy, as a young lady from Indiana, and Herb Shriner, TV and radio humorist, in a rare acting role as a hardware store owner.

Maynooth

In the 1920s, the town was the unofficial home to the King's representative in Ireland, Governor General Domhnall Ua Buachalla, who declined to take up official residence in the Viceregal Lodge in the Phoenix Park, and whose family operated a hardware store in the town until 2005, the only store with an Irish language name in the town for many years.

Otis R. Bowen

Vernie also owned a hardware store in Leiters Ford, was a trustee for Aubbeenaubbee Township, President of the Woodlawn Hospital Board of Trustees, and President of the Leiters Ford Merchants Association.

Pocopson Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Pocopson is a mostly rural community, home to (besides residential areas) three restaurants, two parks, two veterinary offices, a career coaching practice, a canoe rental company, a dentist office, a beauty salon, a coffee shop, a florist, a prison and juvenile detention center, a retirement home, a post office, a hardware store, an elementary school, a fencing company and a steelworking hall.

Sharpe family murders

On 29 March 2004, Sharpe visited a local Bunnings Warehouse hardware store in Frankston where he purchased a roll of duct tape, two tarpaulins and an electric chainsaw.

Zale Parry

Most recently, she was in the film Tillamook Treasure, in which she played Sam, the owner of a hardware store.