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Old 09-04-2018, 11:22 PM   #41
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Nothing better in Portland, Oregon than Winks Hardware. Over 50,000 items in stock in a multi-story building since 1909. If you know what you want, a salesperson looks in their computer, talks on a radio, and it minutes it comes flying down an old wooden ramp from upstairs. If you don't know exactly what you need, one of the gray hairs will help you figure that out.


From their website--> " Not only do we stock the weird, we find your hardware solution."


https://winkshardware.com/
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Old 09-06-2018, 12:32 PM   #42
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I moved to Juneau, Alaska in 1980 … the same year Mount St. Helens blew. Well in the downtown area was a wonderful hardware store called 'Endicott Hardware'. It was the kind of store that never let me down no matter how obtuse my request was. As my occupation was fixing old boats and turn of the century houses … long before codes. I'd go to Endicotts's with the confidence that they would have whatever I needed. Numerous times reacting to my most radical request, the clerk would squint, scratch his head …. and tell me "yeah … I think we may have one" … follow me. Off to the very back of his store where he would open a trap door in the plank flooring, pull a chain light switch … lighting a ladder to the catacombs a secrete floor below (oh no …. the public was not allowed there) … after blowing dust and rummaging through the shelving …. he would hand me a box with the exact item that I needed …. Manufacturer's phone number in four digits maybe just two. That store never let me down no matter how obscure my request.

Hindsight is always 20 / 20 … but I sure wish I had offered to do inventory for free. Now a Tee shirt store and a diamond ring palace sits in its place all to service the cruise ship industry.

Where is your favorite hardware store?

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When I lived there (58-61) the place to go was Rusher's Hardware. Long gone now I'm sure. Rusher's son was a classmate of mine. Rusher's ran the Salmon Derby of the week all season long. My mom won one week bringing in a 42lb King Salmon. My dad had to crank up the 25HP Johnson b/c the 3HP trolling motor could not keep up and the reel was about out of line after the fish had run 2 times seeing the bottom of the boat.

Right across Front St. was Percy's Drug Store serving fountain drinks at tables.

Did Endicott pick up Rusher's? I seem to recall Rusher's was demolished by a fire in the 70's or 80's.

For me I like Montana Ace Hardware Store in Kalispell. They are local and stock lots of merchandise at reasonable prices.
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Old 09-06-2018, 12:47 PM   #43
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Another vote for my local ACE, but ACE hardwares any where. Good warrantys and many of their staff are skilled and willing problem solvers.
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