And, the next quiz - See if you recognize this business below, which I visited many times and the approximate date it was taken. This should be pretty easy.
Friday, January 28, 2011
The Rockingham Quiz - 01-28-11
And, the next quiz - See if you recognize this business below, which I visited many times and the approximate date it was taken. This should be pretty easy.
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Tommy Nichols commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteTommy wrote:
"Looks like Rockingham Harware when it was beside the Farmer's Bank."
Sandy Browder commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteSandy wrote:
"Hough Hardware?"
Tess Ann Jones commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteTess wrote:
"Is this Rockingham Hardware? I know that is The Farmer's Bank beside it. Telling my age aren't I."
Margaret Taylor commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteMargaret wrote:
"I say it is Rockingham Hardware."
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Jeff Todd commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteJeff wrote:
"I too think that it is Rockingham Hardware. Does anybody remember a guy named Hap or something like that who worked there?"
Tess Ann Jones commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteTess wrote:
"Are you talking about Happy Covington?"
Carson F Richards commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteCarson wrote:
"Definitely, Hough Hardware!"
Sandy Browder commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteSandy wrote:
"Harvey Hough, daughter Jenine(sp?) was a year behind me, she dated Phil Patterson, right?"
Denise Washburn commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteDenise wrote:
"I think it's Rockingham Hardware also!"
Dean Albright commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteDean wrote:
"Me too, Rockingham Hardware ! Before it moved !"
Sandy Browder commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteSandy wrote:
"Surely there were not two hardware stores in Rockingham....did Hough become Rockingham, or similar?"
Tess Ann Jones commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteTess wrote:
"We did have 2 back in the 60's."
Sandy Browder commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteSandy wrote:
"Ah....guess that we did business with Hough.....don't remember the other one...."
Dean Albright commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteDean wrote:
"I can't recall Hough uptown, I am getting old though lol. I remember one on 74."
Sandy Browder commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteSandy wrote:
"I don't remember at all where it was.....just remember Harvey was a friend of my dad's and his daughter was a friend of my neighbor Kay Lynn McIntosh...."
Dean Albright commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteDean wrote:
"Wasn't there a place called Cox Army Surplus along there somewhere?"
Sandy Browder commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteSandy wrote:
"Cox's was downtown on the square....think that it went away with "urban renewal" or whatever took all of the wonderful old buildings away from downtown Rockingham...."
Sandy Browder commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteSandy wrote:
"And I am old as dirt....what can I say ;-)"
Tess Ann Jones commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteTess wrote:
"Hough was on 74 went in there many times."
Sandy Browder commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteSandy wrote:
"I am thinking that maybe Hough's became Rockingham Hardware and Hp Covington went with the deal ;-)"
Sandy Browder commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteSandy wrote:
"Ciouldn't have been THREE hardware stores, surely...."
Dean Albright commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteDean wrote:
"I just saw a picture of these buildings and it has Rockingham Hardware Co. across the top lol."
Howard Richardson commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteHoward wrote:
"This picture is Rockingham Hardware, my uncle worked theire in the late 50s and early 60s. It was right beside The Farmers Bank. Just up the street form the Ford Dealer."
Sandy Browder commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteSandy wrote:
"OK, so there were 3 hardware stores in Rockingham?"
Bob McDonald commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteBob wrote:
"Joel, did you buy that sawed-off at the back door? Thoght only Al Capone & Baby Face Nelson carried sawed-off shotguns. Don't know about then but it is illegal now. I had a sigle shot 16 gauge stolen from me in "75, the thug cut the barrel off, and I could not get it back after the law recovered it."
Jack Cooper commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteJack wrote:
"Ok, Joel, we've gone from learning that we had way too many hardware stores in Rockingham to who use to date who to who use live next to me to let me tell you tell me about my shotgun....this is hilarious...keep up the good work."
Jay Hudson commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteJay wrote:
"Marble building was Farmers Bank.One of the others was Rockingham Hardware. I think the other was the Army-Navy surplus store. Hough Hardware was down beside the Strand Theater where Community Theater is now."
Eve West Crump commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteEve wrote:
"Dang Joel, I just talked to Harry on the phone......forgot to ask him about all this !"
Frances Godwin commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteFrances wrote:
"I am not a R'ham native, but I am pretty sure it is R'ham Hardware beside Farmer's Bank. It was across the street from my husband's first Nationwide Ins. office which was rented from Doc & Pauline Williams in 1962. Our office was beside their Chiropractic Office..Pennigar Motors Buick-Pontiac dealership was right down the block across from where current R'ham Hardware is now....yes there was a Ford dealership also down there. We bought a brand new 1967 Pontiac Executive Station Wagon from Mr. Pennigar. It is to this day at the top of my list of our favorite cars from the past."
"Hardware was between Bank and Cox Army Supply."
"R'Ham had 3 hardware stores..Happy Covington worked at hardware on Lawrence St behind old Bristow Drug. It was where Richmond Sav. & Loan was & Community Bank is now. Hardware was across the street from parking lot behind our office on corner of E. Wash. & S. Lawrence. We moved to that office in 1972 from the
front office of the old Manufactor's Building owned by Kay Whittemore."
"my hubby and I think it was Lupton's Hardware on S. Lawerence. That is definitely where Happy Covington worked....went in there many times from back of office. Happy had a head full of knowledge about plants, fertilizers,etc."
Jay Hudson commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteJay wrote:
"It's sad that the urban renewal project destroyed uptown Rockingham,and it never recovered, but we got a shopping center."
Jimmy Dunn commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteJimmy wrote:
"Cox Army surplus was right there below the hardware because we used to pick up and sell drink bottles so we could buy a machete there to go on safari on Hitchcock Creek, great time and place to grow up."
Bill N Cheryle Dennis commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteBill N Cheryle wrote:
"Rockingham Hardware between Farmers Bank & Coxes Army Store!"
Gayle Freeman commented on your photo.
ReplyDeleteGayle wrote:
"Joel, I think you have gotten a good thing started. It is fun and interesting to read all the comments. I think it is Cox's Army & Surplus beside Rockingham Hardware."
Plenty of good answers and guesses. The correct answer is below:
ReplyDeleteThe photograph below is the previous location of Rockingham Hardware Co. in the early 1960s - prior to urban renewal. The building partly visible on the right is a portion of the current RBC Centura bank building on the corner of W. Washington Street and Lee Street.
Phillip Knight; This is Rockingham Hardware as I worked there my Sr. year and after graduation,We sold everything but the kitchen sink. I have oiled the floors more times than I want to remember. Hough Hardware was located where thelaw offices of Leath,Buynam,Neal and whoever. Lupton Hardware was next to "The Building an Loan"(Richmond Savings and Loan)
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