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Portrait with banned pest control product, c. 1960
Two men pose holding a bag of Hector's 5% Chlordane Dust, a pest control product that was banned in 1988. Many other hardware store items in view behind the men. -
Tom Schreckengost with large boar and rifle, 1955
Storefront of Stuart Paint & Supply with a taxidermy boar outside of the store. Man with racoon hat and rifle poses next to the boar. Published in the Stuart News (6 Oct 1955) with the caption: "This giant North Korean boar (left) was found by a Stuart News reporter on display in a window of the Stuart Paint and Supply on Osceola Ave. The stuffed beast measured 3 1/2 ft. tall, 6 1/2 ft. long. Genial Tom Schreckengost, known to poor spellers as "Shreck" and to the uninformed as "Modest Tom," grabbed the pig, a rifle and coonskin cap and hammed-up the scene above on the sidewalk in front of (naturally) Stuart Paint and Supply, Inc." -
Fish portrait at Stuart Hardware, c. 1955
Woman stands with a fish in front of a fishing tackle display at Stuart Hardware Store. -
Interior at Stuart Hardware Co., 1955
Interior view at Stuart Hardware Company store with refrigerators and shelves filled with houseware items. -
Stuart Hardware store, 1955
Hand tool section at the Stuart Hardware Company store. -
Little girl with big trout, 1955
Girl stands holding a fish in front of a wall of paint cans at a hardware store. Published in the Stuart News (19 May 1955) with the caption: "Pamela 'Pam' Schreckengost, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Schreckengost, caught a bigger sea trout than her dad has landed all year when she went fishing with her grandmother, Mrs. Reginald Kitching, in the St. Lucie last Thursday. Old Spots tipped the scales at 7 lbs." -
Stuart Hardware Company staff portrait, 1956
Published in the Stuart News (19 Apr 1956) with a caption reading "This is the staff of the Stuart Hardware Co., Inc., whose big sale this month commemorated completion of their first year in their expanded quarters fronting on Osceola Ave. They are (left to right) Lon Tyson, Bernard Coker, Everett Ingram and Mrs. Tyson." -
Jensen Hardware, c. 1955
Hardware store with signs for Sherwin Williams Paint, Gro-Tone plant food. -
Post Office Arcade building, 1954
The Post Office Arcade building with store fronts and parked cars along Osceola Avenue in downtown Stuart. The Martin County Hardware store, the Stuart Paint Co., and the Little Dress Shop are visible. Published in the Stuart News (21 Feb 1957). -
W & W Lumber, c. 1970
Large home center with lumber and hardware store. Iris and Homer Wallstarted a lumber business in 1962 and later expanded to other locations.