Notes on the Cole/Brace Hardware 8/06
-C.C. Cole & Company was in business from at least 1880 on
-It might have been located somewhere else before the present building was erected in 1898
-Wayne Cole and Adelbert Brace formed a firm in 1900 and dissolved it in 1913.
-Cole went to Baldwinsville and opened a hardware there and Adelbert Brace continued on with Wilbur Eaton and Roy Brace until about 1919.
-In 1919 (and in one instance 1918!) the new firm is advertising in the local paper as Brace Hardware.
-Like any typical small town hardware, they sold almost everything a homeowner or farmer might need , including: seeds, furnaces, round oak stoves, glass ware, mails, pumps, doors, agricultural implements and everything in between!
-The Brace Hardware had a full time tin-smith on hand
-At least three generations of Braces worked there. Adelbert Brace, his daughter and her husband, Don and Marion Brace Williams, then their daughter and her husband Winona and Ray Clifford.
-At Christmas time, during the 1950’s, the toys and gifts were displayed on the second floor and in the turret.
S. Young 8/25/06
-C.C. Cole & Company was in business from at least 1880 on
-It might have been located somewhere else before the present building was erected in 1898
-Wayne Cole and Adelbert Brace formed a firm in 1900 and dissolved it in 1913.
-Cole went to Baldwinsville and opened a hardware there and Adelbert Brace continued on with Wilbur Eaton and Roy Brace until about 1919.
-In 1919 (and in one instance 1918!) the new firm is advertising in the local paper as Brace Hardware.
-Like any typical small town hardware, they sold almost everything a homeowner or farmer might need , including: seeds, furnaces, round oak stoves, glass ware, mails, pumps, doors, agricultural implements and everything in between!
-The Brace Hardware had a full time tin-smith on hand
-At least three generations of Braces worked there. Adelbert Brace, his daughter and her husband, Don and Marion Brace Williams, then their daughter and her husband Winona and Ray Clifford.
-At Christmas time, during the 1950’s, the toys and gifts were displayed on the second floor and in the turret.
S. Young 8/25/06
1 comment:
I love to hear about the early history of this town. I look at the pictures and find myself day-dreaming about what it would have been like to live back then. The buildings are so beutiful to me, I wish this town could thrive the way it usd to. BTW what is the deal with the old pizza sam's building. Are there any plans to revitalize it.
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