As I was reading the introduction Thread for Menards I had a flash back to when I was real young 8-12 yrs old. At Christmas time my father and I went to our local Lumber Yard, Ridge Pike Lumber/Ridge Homes in Conshohocken Pa. for something I don't remember, while in the Lumber Yard sheets of Plywood were being pulled right and left, I was told every body was building their Christmas train lay-outs.
While reading the threads on the Feed & Seed building I'm flashing back to my 4-6th grade years in grade school when I rode my bike to and from school. At the end of my street was an old Grist Mill that was said to have supplied Washington's army while at Valley Forge which was now a feed store not over a foot ball length from the PRR and Reading railroad tracks. I would ride my bike there on the way home from school most nights and hang out at the Mill till a train came by on one of the lines and rushed out to see it. I apearently kept this from my mother cause some 40 years after that I said something about it to her and she said she don't know I was doing that and would not of left me do that if she had known.
The Grist Mill in later years was given to an Historical Society to move but someone one night set it ablaze. I learned later also the owner of the Grist Mill was a cousin of my Uncle who gave me his family trains.
Menards Thanks for the Memories, and when are you going to move into SE Pa.?
I find that the old hardware stores that have been able to weather the Big Box hardware stores seem to sell better quality lumber [if they sell lumber] and seam to be better with odds and ends stock with better sales people.
