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What were saturdays like before Home Depot and Lowes?
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What were saturdays like before Home Depot and Lowes?


Jun 20, 2012, 11:41 AM

Did people hire other people to do all this home improvement work?

did they get some of this stuff at the ACE or True Value type places?

Did regular people even buy lumber?

Were Saturdays fun back then?

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Main street hardware store***


Jun 20, 2012, 11:41 AM



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I had one 2000ft from my house


Jun 20, 2012, 11:43 AM

but still drove through traffic 15minutes due to the insane markup on old, dusty parts.

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old norms!***


Jun 20, 2012, 11:46 AM



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84 lumber.


Jun 20, 2012, 11:42 AM

And you had to order a lot of stuff.

Thats what i remember from my dad doing that stuff when i was a kid.

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I still recommend lumber yards for anything over a few board***


Jun 20, 2012, 11:43 AM



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HQ or 84Lumber


Jun 20, 2012, 12:22 PM

hth

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I hire everything out now other than plantin'***


Jun 20, 2012, 12:23 PM

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I just remember the lumber yards being separate from


Jun 20, 2012, 12:48 PM

everything else. Big companies didn't kill "Main Street" so much as the better people on "Main Street" saw a way to beat everybody else. It is the American way.

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we'd cut trees down and shape them with our pocket knives


Jun 20, 2012, 12:53 PM

after the farm got going good, dad got a job at the local sawmill.. then we got the well cut wood for adding the loft onto the house.

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