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Washington, D.C., circa 1924. "Ford Motor Co. -- Fred Haas, Rhode Island Avenue N.E." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Here's the same building today, from about the same angle. It also shows a little of 2008 next door, which was also part of the hardware store back in the day.
The fellow loading the truck is wearing a necktie, not a T-shirt with some crude phrase on it. I'm not much for dressing up, but a certain level is nice.
I'd like to get a can of their varnish.
C'mon people- you'll never compete in the 21st century with a notion like that!
from Mazda Edison, to Certain-Teed, to Wearever. Hardware stores like Haas' still exist, but now they're the exception, rather than the rule.
I have a Christmas light bulb (a white one) marked "GE MAZDA" that I got many years ago, along with some old decorations, from a now-departed friend. It's a prized possession.
Rhode Island Avenue is an extension of Route 1. So this was once a well-traveled road north. Perhaps this accounts for the decline seen here.
"Not the name of a thing, but the mark of a service."
Walmart 1.0
And if they don't, you probably don't need it.
Oh, for a hundred dollars and five minutes in that place! Sigh.
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