Ten square blocks in Sioux Falls provided all they needed: a home, hospital, schools, churches, colleges, and grocery stores, just a walk or short bike ride away. But central to the Johnson family of six was their business and source of income six blocks away from home. Johnson Hardware was the modern equivalent of a bazaar, a meeting place for people from all walks of life needing what a hardware store supplied. It attracted a menagerie of people and events with countless KSOO radio broadcasts from the storefront, fishing ...
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Ten square blocks in Sioux Falls provided all they needed: a home, hospital, schools, churches, colleges, and grocery stores, just a walk or short bike ride away. But central to the Johnson family of six was their business and source of income six blocks away from home. Johnson Hardware was the modern equivalent of a bazaar, a meeting place for people from all walks of life needing what a hardware store supplied. It attracted a menagerie of people and events with countless KSOO radio broadcasts from the storefront, fishing and hunting contest entries, break-ins, burglars, shoplifters, rats, giant catfish swimming in wading pools on the storefront, and wooden racks holding hundreds of Christmas trees. This book's author has fashioned 10 insider stories, that maybe, for the first time, have exposed what unimaginable things take place in a hardware store when no one is looking.
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