Yesterday my father and I discussed the new hardware store that's slated to open in the former Hy-Vee at 40th and Old Cheney. We began talking about all the hardware stores that have come and gone over the years in south Lincoln. We came up with a pretty sizable list. But one hardware store stumped us. What was the name of the hardware store that used to be located in Briarhurst Plaza where Earl May and Dietze Music (and a couple other businesses) currently reside? Was it an Ace? True-Value? Baker's? Something else? Oddly enough we were able to take ourselves on a virtual tour through the old store -- we covered everything from the location of the key-making machine to the distinctive hardware store smell -- but we couldn't come up with the name.
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And while you're at it, feel free to reminisce about hardware stores around town that stick in your mind.
Edited to add: I should clarify that I'm not talking about the most recent hardware store tenant. I'm talking about the hardware store that was there around the mid- to late-80's. Maybe the most recent hardware store (True Value) was just a slimmed down version of the old store, but I was thinking they were different animals.
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The hardware store was True Value and it moved to 27th and Hwy. 2, north of Shopko, where the old Russ’s Market used to reside.
That was the most recent hardware store. But is that the same hardware store that was in that location back in, oh, I’ll say the mid- to late-80’s?
Wasn’t it Hoppe’s Lumber?
Used to be a nice little hardware store on North 66th between Colby and Garland. That was many years ago.
Regarding your store at 48th and Hwy 2, I remember one on the northwest side of that intersection and I thought it was a Baker’s True-Value. Then a HobbyTown USA for awhile.
My favorite one is the QP next to Tastees near 48th and Holdredge. Back when I was growing up there was always a group of guys who hung out there up by the counter and watched TV and talked. They had good candy.
I still go there when I have a problem I cannot figure out. Bring in something broken and the oracle in the back, who sits on a centuries old chair that has no original parts because it is made completely repaired parts, and he will have an idea how to fix it. Love that place.
The Baker hardware downtown is where I go most of the time. They know my name and I do not have to pull out my rewards tag, they just ring it up.
Yeah, that QP place is pretty rad.
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