"Larry Blanchard" writes:
I grew up in Louisville in the '40s and '50s. Somewhere
downtown around 1st and the river was this enormous building
called Belknap hardware - a whole city block and multiple
stories, all crammed full.

Belknap was also a hardware wholesaler that called on the hardware store
where I worked while in high school.

There was a PBS story some time ago covering the life of the Belknap
Hardware Co.

Yes, it is long gone along with the Geo Worthington Co and the W Bingham Co,
both hardware wholesalers located in Cleveland.

Not sure if Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett in Chicago or Bostwick-Braun in
Toledo still survive.


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Lew

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