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Mom & Pop Hardware

Beth DeCarbo

Dedicated to independent hardware stores in Kansas and everywhere else.

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Latest Issues

Happy 100th Birthday to a Hardware Legend

TODAY is an important day in hardware history.

100 years ago, on May 7, 1926, Gene Copeland entered this world “just-a bawlin’ and squawlin,” as he would say. My father was born just a few short weeks after Queen Elizabeth, who by comparis...

13 days ago
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Way Before the Internet, the West Already Was Wired

Photo by Andrew Burridge on Unsplash

Where’s the Barbed Wire Capital of the World? You guessed it! Kansas!

Every year, the good souls in La Crosse host the Barbed Wire Festival on the first weekend in May. Collectors from across the count...

a month ago
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The Wall Outlet Was Incorrectly Named

Look, I know you’re busy, so I’m getting straight to the point. This thing, found in every home in the U.S., is commonly known as an outlet:

But dern-it, we’ve been using the wrong term for well over a century. It should be called an inlet...

a month ago
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Every Bunny Loves a Free Craft Project

If you have read Mom & Pop Hardware, you will know that the Easter bunny magically delivered goodies to the Copeland household in galvanized buckets instead of in woven baskets like what normal children got. Coincidentally, these were the e...

2 months ago
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A Sexy Customer Puts Home Depot to the Test

Recently, a Los Angeles-based TikToker had a simple question: Would she get better customer service at a hardware store while wearing a sexy dress or shlumpy shorts?

Content creator Caroline Ricke (better known as RichCaroline) put Home De...

2 months ago
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