Re: Ping Gunner, a webcomic referal
John Husvar
pyotr filipivich <ph...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb317.html
>
> I worked in a store somewhat like this.
Ah, weep, weep for the passing of the old-fashioned general/hardware
store! (OK, that's enough drama queen crap.:)
Used to be one near E.79 and Broadway south of Cleveland in the 80s
where you could get almost anything.
A trip to its basement was to learn the meanings of fear and joy; fear
for all the really heavy stuff hanging from the joists or sitting on
teetering racks, joy for the parts and supplies for the oldest of old
machinery.
And the tools! Old Stanley planes still wrapped and in their original
boxes were the least of them. Some only a ghost from the Civil War era
might recognize. R.H.'s pleasure would be almost orgasmic! So, perhaps
would Gunner's. Iggy would have been in Heaven, absolute Heaven.:)
I wonder what happened to all that when they closed the store.
If you needed it, it was there somewhere and one of the the proprietors,
a crusty who-knows-how-old couple, would tell you exactly where it was.
--
Bring back, Oh bring back
Oh, bring back that old continuity.
Bring back, oh, bring back
Oh, bring back Clerk Maxwell to me.
Tom Gardner
"John Husvar" <jhu...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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What was the name? I remember going in that basement and gathering 10
pounds of taper pins that ended up costing me $5.00. I still have hundreds.
There is an old hardware store, Bloom Bros. Supply, on 93rd and Buckeye that
the wood floor creaks and it smells like fertilizer and cutting oil. And,
there's still Sutton Hardware on St. Clair.
John Husvar
"Tom Gardner" <tom(nospam)@ohiobrush.com> wrote:
>
> What was the name? I remember going in that basement and gathering 10
> pounds of taper pins that ended up costing me $5.00. I still have hundreds.
> There is an old hardware store, Bloom Bros. Supply, on 93rd and Buckeye that
> the wood floor creaks and it smells like fertilizer and cutting oil. And,
> there's still Sutton Hardware on St. Clair.
Sorry, Tom, I can't remember the name. IIRC, it was at first glance just
a storefront. When you got inside, you got a really pleasant surprise.
I think I'll take a ride up to Cleveland in the near future and visit
those places.
Thanks!
Pete Keillor
<jhu...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>In article <su7qh.22649$sR....@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>,
> "Tom Gardner" <tom(nospam)@ohiobrush.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> What was the name? I remember going in that basement and gathering 10
>> pounds of taper pins that ended up costing me $5.00. I still have hundreds.
>> There is an old hardware store, Bloom Bros. Supply, on 93rd and Buckeye that
>> the wood floor creaks and it smells like fertilizer and cutting oil. And,
>> there's still Sutton Hardware on St. Clair.
>
>Sorry, Tom, I can't remember the name. IIRC, it was at first glance just
>a storefront. When you got inside, you got a really pleasant surprise.
>
>I think I'll take a ride up to Cleveland in the near future and visit
>those places.
>
>Thanks!
There was a place like that in Freeport, Texas. Girouard's stocking
policy was when a space opened, buy something and put full retail on
it. But they never updated a price. They serviced the shrimpers,
among others, and had old radio tubes, scythes, cast iron skillets,
cordage, etc. etc. Stuff that had been on the shelves 20-30 years was
a good deal if you could figure out what it was.
When Sagness died, the kids modernized the place. It was never the
same after that.
Pete Keillor
Ed Huntress
news:ucaiq25qb32594rjf...@4ax.com...
We had one of those in my town until 1982 or so. You could buy farrier's
rasps, the cast-iron crown pieces for hitching posts, lathe bits (unfinished
Rex square bits -- when did they stop making those?), gooseneck chisels and
slicks ('want to build a timber-frame house? Didn't everybody?). Some of the
stock was over 100 years old, which they'd pull out from time to time, blow
off the dust, and sell them as "specials."
They went out of business.
--
Ed Huntress
pyotr filipivich
wrote on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:24:47 -0500 in misc.survivalism :
>In article <ne4hq2hqvvn655uis...@4ax.com>,
> pyotr filipivich <ph...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb317.html
>>
>> I worked in a store somewhat like this.
>
>Ah, weep, weep for the passing of the old-fashioned general/hardware
>store! (OK, that's enough drama queen crap.:)
>
>Used to be one near E.79 and Broadway south of Cleveland in the 80s
>where you could get almost anything.
>
>A trip to its basement was to learn the meanings of fear and joy; fear
>for all the really heavy stuff hanging from the joists or sitting on
>teetering racks, joy for the parts and supplies for the oldest of old
>machinery.
>
>And the tools! Old Stanley planes still wrapped and in their original
>boxes were the least of them. Some only a ghost from the Civil War era
>might recognize. R.H.'s pleasure would be almost orgasmic! So, perhaps
>would Gunner's. Iggy would have been in Heaven, absolute Heaven.:)
>
>I wonder what happened to all that when they closed the store.
>
>If you needed it, it was there somewhere and one of the the proprietors,
>a crusty who-knows-how-old couple, would tell you exactly where it was.
Ah, a House of Three Wonders. You wonder if they have it, they wonder
where it is, we all wonder that it was found.
--
pyotr filipivich
"Given our monstrous, overgrown government structure, any three letters
chosen at random would probably designate an agency or part of a
department that could be profitably abolished." Milton Freidman
pyotr filipivich
<keill...@chartermi.net> wrote on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:54:07 -0500 in
misc.survivalism :
Why is this stocked here? "It made sense at the time."
>
>When Sagness died, the kids modernized the place. It was never the
>same after that.
Bill Hardwick is like that, takes after grandpa. "Everything will sell
in seven years". Sometimes it took that long.
tschus
pyotr