Currently this Smalltownland icon is for sale. Located within the historic town square, it has been dispensing home items for many a year. It also houses a small collection of gentleman farmers who spend quality time together swapping stories.
Fair warning ~ the building is just a lopsided as it appears in this crazy photograph.
"A small town is where everyone knows whose check is good and whose husband is not."
Sid Ascher
Love it!!!
ReplyDeleteOh I would love to buy that a cool old building with wonderful painted brick and an awesome sign but the storytelling inside would have been the magic part:) B
ReplyDeleteAlways sad when the old buildings are sold I think.....Love the sign, Francine.
ReplyDeleteHaha :D Loved the saying at the end! Too much gossiping in small towns :) Have a wonderful week ahead Michelle :)
ReplyDeleteIt may be lopsided, but that just gives it character!
ReplyDeleteLove the quote but hate that the store might be facing hard(er) times.
ReplyDeletei love the way you photographed it! poor old shop...ha, that quote is great!
ReplyDeleteWe used to go to the greatest little hardware store when we lived in another town. Roach's. "If we don't have it, you don't need it." What a wonderful place. Sadly, it is no longer a hardware store. So sad to see the locally owned businesses close.
ReplyDeleteIf I move there will you run it with me ??? I wish.
ReplyDeleteNeat building! I hope someone buys it.
ReplyDeletethe quote made me chuckle. the old guys sitting around inside that building made me smile. :)
ReplyDeleteLuckily we still have some neighborhood hardware stores: they are much better and with more compentent staff than any huge market in the suburbs...
ReplyDeleteDid you get a Home Depot close by? We did and the old hardware stores closed. I loved the one I used to visit where you also could find men swapping tall tales.
ReplyDeleteOhhh.. please tell me someone will buy it and keep it going.. this is quintessential rural America.. is this where you bought the bullets? ((hugs)), Teresa :-)
ReplyDeleteUh oh- those men better start looking for a new place to visit.
ReplyDeleteThe old hardware stores were so much fun to browse in. no telling what you would find.....
ReplyDeleteA metaphor for small town ( or village) decay.eh?
ReplyDeleteThe question is: could it still make it as a hardware store?
ReplyDeleteLovely graphic photo.
Hah! Sounds exactly like the town I've lived near to for almost fifty years now. No longer a city boy.....
ReplyDeleteSmalltownland sound wonderful, just like Mayberry. How about we trade places for a week. You can stay in West Hartford or Naples and I will stay at the farmette.
ReplyDeleteOh no it's sad when old buildings and daily routines change. The texture of the siding is cool and it sure does look like it's been around the block once or twice.
ReplyDeleteGreat quote. I hope someone snaps up that lopsided building, so at least those gentlemen farmers have a place to go. After 80+ years, we just lost the local hardware store in downtown Sarasota.
ReplyDeleteGreat quote. I hope someone snaps up that lopsided building, so at least those gentlemen farmers have a place to go. After 80+ years, we just lost the local hardware store in downtown Sarasota.
ReplyDeleteLOVE that, sad it's being sold... I've started a new meme today, called 'Rurality,' for all things country and rural, come share??
ReplyDeleteIt would seem to me that a lot of small town hardware store are going by the wayside. Lowe's and the other big ones seem to have the monopoly. Sad.
ReplyDeleteI can see it now "Farmchick Hardware!You slogan could be "Sometimes it takes a woman's touch." Go for it!
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