3 segments from 1 interviews touch on this subject.
My father-in-law, Emmett Pierce, opened it in 1946, when the boys came home from the war. It was half a hardware store and half whatever the town needed. He sold nails by the pound, chicken feed, school shoes in Septembe…
Linda, what was it like growing up in the store? The store was our third parent. I could make change before I could ride a bike. My brother and I counted washers into little paper bags for a penny a bag. And the smell, e…
What were the hard years? The flood spring of 1974 was hard, but it was a busy hard. We sold every pump, every pair of boots, every foot of hose in the county. And Jean just wrote names in a notebook because nobody had m…