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["Wolfe, Joanna" <wolfe AT oup-usa.org>]

Speaking of Hardware stores, I like going to the Tru-value hardware
store on 54 and at Woodcroft.
Often their prices are better than Home Depot and Lowes...
jw

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> From:         Tanner Lovelace
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> Sent:         Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:32 PM
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> Subject:      Re: [internetworkers] Re: Wal-Mart
> 
> Wolfe, Joanna wrote:
> > Wal-Mart killed downtown Gettysburg, PA
> > Zerfinger's Hardware, which had been in existance over 100 years
> was
> > driven out of business in less than 6 months after Wal-Mart
> opened.
> > Likewise the downtown Pharmacy.
> > Sure they're open 24 hours...
> > Joanna Wolfe
> 
> Same with the East Asheville Hardware Store.  Before
> they closed, however, David Wilcox penned this beauty:
> 
> http://davidwilcox.com/nonflash/lyricsearch.php?lyricpage=36
> 
> My favorite section of the song is this:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> Go to East Asheville Hardware
> Before you go to Lowe's
> 
> You'll help to keep them open
> I'm worried they might close
>  From the stiff competition
>  From the national conglomerate
> With the full page ad
> in the color section of the Sunday paper supplement
> and stacks of plastic swimming pools
> and seven brands of power tools
> and rows and rows of registers
> all having nice days
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> The mental image the last two lines conjures up amuses me
> for some reason. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
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