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Remembering Lundquist Hardware

Local Business A Fixture Of Brooklyn Square For Decades

The “Lundquist” store-front sign is just above the flowers on the right-hand side of this classic photograph of Brooklyn Square.
Pictured are Lundquist Hardware trucks in the early 1930s. A note on the back of the photo said it was taken near the junction of Third and Second Streets, with the now-demolished First Baptist Church in the background.
Pictured is the interior of Ludquist hardware, in which the freight elevator and some of the offerings can be seen, with owner Bud Lundquist, in this photo from around 1960.
Lundquist Hardware was a fixture in Brooklyn Square for many decades. Operated by three generations of the Carl and Ellen Lundquist family, the store was…

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