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If it's HARDWARE We Have It
The oldest Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) on West San Carlos is being remodeled. I hope they preserve this magnificent piece of custom neon. My mother in law saw me processing this picture and noted fondly of her late husband how much he loved that particular OSH on West San Carlos. Street ; “if he needed a nail, he would drive across town to buy it in that store”.
From an article by By Mary Gottschalk, mgottschalk@community-newspapers.com
The history of OSH dates back to March 1931 when a rented warehouse on Bassett Street was stocked with orchard ladders, picking pails and other farm supplies by a group of 30 farmers who formed a co-op to get the best prices they could during the Depression.
The original 30 invested $30 each, and soon other farmers started shopping there, and the cooperative grew to close to 2,000 members.
Its growth caused the company to relocate to a larger space on Vine Street and then in 1946 to the W. San Carlos property, adjacent to a railroad line for deliveries.
No longer a co-op, OSH has been sold several times, including to Sears in 1996.
Since December 2011, it has been an independent public company and now has 89 stores in California.
If it's HARDWARE We Have It
The oldest Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) on West San Carlos is being remodeled. I hope they preserve this magnificent piece of custom neon. My mother in law saw me processing this picture and noted fondly of her late husband how much he loved that particular OSH on West San Carlos. Street ; “if he needed a nail, he would drive across town to buy it in that store”.
From an article by By Mary Gottschalk, mgottschalk@community-newspapers.com
The history of OSH dates back to March 1931 when a rented warehouse on Bassett Street was stocked with orchard ladders, picking pails and other farm supplies by a group of 30 farmers who formed a co-op to get the best prices they could during the Depression.
The original 30 invested $30 each, and soon other farmers started shopping there, and the cooperative grew to close to 2,000 members.
Its growth caused the company to relocate to a larger space on Vine Street and then in 1946 to the W. San Carlos property, adjacent to a railroad line for deliveries.
No longer a co-op, OSH has been sold several times, including to Sears in 1996.
Since December 2011, it has been an independent public company and now has 89 stores in California.