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In the back of the hardware store
There's a man who's been there for years
He's got a pipe in his mouth
And grease in his beard...
He's the old man at the hardware store
Selling antique gas pump supplies.
He knows his stuff, he's been around
He could care less sometimes...
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Belli Hardware
888 O St
Firebaugh, CA.
A large former hardware store has lain fallow for 8 years.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
16 February 2022.
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Razed, January 2023.
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Winning the Pike's Peak race, and placing 6th at Indy, this car went to auction with $6-700,000 estimates, and actually sold for $1.1 Million! Gorgeously restored, this image is from Laguna Seca, and the owner/driver let us sit in it with the Imposing steering wheel dominating your vision.
'As early as 1929, Ab Jenkins set his sights on Indy, but it wasn't until 1931 that he took his best shot. He'd already known George Hunt, Studebaker's testing chief, from his time racing Studebakers in endurance runs in the late Twenties, and according to Gordon Eliot White's "Ab & Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaker Connection and the Mormon Meteors," Studebaker owed Jenkins for his expenses, so he cashed in that IOU in the form of off-the-shelf Studebaker Commander axles, hardware, and a Commander 337-cu.in. straight-eight engine.
He and Hunt then took the lot over to Indianapolis-based Herman Rigling, who built one of his Indy chassis around the components and slid it under a Pop Dreyer-built aluminum body. Somebody - most likely Hunt - spent the time massaging the nine-main-bearing straight-eight with a 6.5:1 compression ratio aluminum cylinder head, four Studebaker truck carburetors, a Scintilla magneto, and a reground camshaft to bump the stock engine's output from 110 to 175 horsepower.
They built the car according to the so-called "junk formula" template that Eddie Rickenbacker initiated for the 1930 Indy 500. Over the prior 20 years, the race entries had grown ever more exotic, expensive, and removed from the vehicles that carmakers offered. In an attempt to lure those carmakers back to supporting Indy, Rickenbacker increased allowable engine displacement from 91.5 cubic inches to 366 cubic inches for heavier, naturally aspirated four-stroke engine-vehicle combinations and re-instituted the riding mechanic.
Jenkins's illness forced him and Hunt to find another driver, Indy veteran Tony Gulotta, who qualified in the No. 37 car at 111 MPH. Along with riding mechanic Carl Riscigno, Gulotta turned in a spectacular performance. While they started in the middle of the pack, according to The Old Motor, Guletta was given the signal to run flat our with 80 laps to go then "passed 18 cars in the next 46 laps and was running in first place when he hit a patch of oil left over from a crash, and went into the wall ending its run." The two men walked away unscathed and Gulotta was credited with 18th place.
Hunt took the car straight back to South Bend to repair it before entering it - still wearing No. 37 - in that year's Pikes Peak hillclimb. While White makes mention of Jenkins's involvement in the car throughout this period, Pikes Peak records list the car as the Hunt Special and another driver, Chuck Myers, drove the car in the event. Myers did well too, beating out Jerry Unser and Glen Shultz with a time of 17 minutes, 10.3 seconds, good enough for an overall win and a course record.'
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Gardner’s True Value Hardware Store, Lone Pine, CA.
Lone Pine has a surprisingly nice collection of neon signs though many are only partially working.
115% of the Australian population know of the giant, almost monopolistic hardware giant Bunnings. In cities and major towns, you can find these massive warehouses across the nation. They are also in New Zealand but strangely an attempt to set up in the UK several years ago was an almighty flop. About the only opposition here is a few Mitre 10 stores and independents in small towns.
One such is the Wamuran Produce and Hardware shown here in the small community of the same name west of Caboolture in South East Queensland. And they have a pretty extensive facility with all sorts of rural supplies . We shop here once a month at least when we buy 100 kilograms (220 imperial pounds) of wild bird seed for you know who (the pink ones) and occasionally some sunflower seed treats and the odd miscellaneous other items.
We dropped by today for five bags (100 kgs which lasts us four weeks). I thought I would give them a plug as they are a bit cheaper than city prices and always helpful, they even bring the seeds out and lift them into the boot which we find difficult these days.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
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The semi-famous Pippo's Hardware ghost sign in Whitehall, New York. The building was constructed in the 1870s, Pippo's hasn't been around for decades and the building has likely been vacant since at least the late-1990s.
UTA's 10th Anniversary MP36 locomotive departs the North Temple station in Salt Lake City, Utah on a crystal clear Dec. 2, 2022 afternoon. UP's former South Yard property continues to evolve as high-density housing occupies the space where freight trains were were broken and built a century ago.
The Davenport Hotel is a hotel located in Spokane, Washington. Commissioned by a group of Spokane businessmen, the hotel is named after Louis Davenport, its first proprietor and overseer of the project. Architect Kirtland Cutter designed the building in 1914. The Davenport Hotel was the first hotel in the United States with air conditioning, a central vacuum system, pipe organ, and dividing doors in the ballrooms. It is also the place at which the first Crab Louis (named after Louis Davenport) was created and served. The hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. -Wiki
This is an image appearing here earlier. I just changed the orange saturation down from being somewhat too intense.