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[Brockport Bill 2,002]

1 hour ago, Dan 312-8 said:

Ah, the days of wooden floors creaking when you walk into your favorite hardware store are all but gone. I always like to support local businesses first but have succumbed to HD and Lowes. I did find a new to me hardware store about a year ago or so, "Paul D Hardware" in Clay, PA. I too was looking for the small clevis pins for the rear axle bracket, yep they had them, I bought 4 of each with the hairpin, had change left out of $2.00, and got a free t-shirt to boot! It's a small chain, but love the store. It's close enough if I need the really hard to find items, but far enough that I don't go for GP items, a good thing, because I would probably have a 1/4 of their inventory in my bins...

what i like about the old fashioned "creaky floor hardware stores" is when the item you need isn't apparent in the aisle and and you ask for help and the answer is --"let me check in the back, i might have one"  then they take you in the store room and pick around a couple old boxes and nice surprise and the comment is " yup here's what you need" - and they almost have to blow off the dust, but yup they had what i needed !!!!!! Yippee, i respond thats it - just what i needed"

[tunahead72 2,554]

3 hours ago, Dan 312-8 said:

... I did find a new to me hardware store about a year ago or so, "Paul D Hardware" in Clay, PA...

 

Is that actually the PaulB store in Lititz that @lynnmor mentioned earlier?

 

[lynnmor 7,890]

39 minutes ago, tunahead72 said:

 

Is that actually the PaulB store in Lititz that @lynnmor mentioned earlier?

 

Nope, Paul B Zimmerman has 3 stores, none in Clay.

[Dan 312-8 192]

2 hours ago, lynnmor said:

Nope, Paul B Zimmerman has 3 stores, none in Clay.

Halfway between Clay and Ephrata, south of 322 on Wood Corner Rd.

[squonk 43,994]

Last name says it all. Mennonite owned store. Unlimited funds to stock as much as they want. There are a few around here. There is one a town over that has every Milwaukee item made in inventory. Right down to the individual drill bits and impact sockets. Last year the aisle next to the Milwaukee stuff was everything Makita. Then all of a sudden it was gone and replaced with everything Dewalt

[adsm08 3,393]

8 hours ago, lynnmor said:

Nope, Paul B Zimmerman has 3 stores, none in Clay.

 

I'm only aware of two, Litiz and Mechanicsburg.

 

The Litiz one is about halfway between Clay and Ephrata, but is probably most correctly in Lincoln.

[lynnmor 7,890]

57 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

 

I'm only aware of two, Litiz and Mechanicsburg.

 

The Litiz one is about halfway between Clay and Ephrata, but is probably most correctly in Lincoln.

PaulB has a store in Belleville, PA.  I didn't know the exact location of Clay so my response was somewhat in error.  Clay is just a census designated place and isn't actually a town.

[Lee1977 7,245]

Not many old privately owned Hardware Stores still open. The last good one closed here in 2002.. O. O. Rufty's General Store original opened on 1905 in Salisbury NC. When you went in they ans asked for something If they didn't have it were not going to find it local. I never went there looking for anything that was made in the last 10 or 15 years. 

 

[Wayne0 1,265]

Suttie's in Limerick, Me. would have every thing from fishing tackle to hot dogs. Sadly, long gone.