And at the front — leading the parade — is Don Hamilton sitting astride the Hechinger lawn tractor he bought in 1987 from the Hechinger store in Glenmont, Md., off Georgia Avenue. I’d come across three nearly full blue-and-white boxes of Hechinger nails in my basement, setting me off on a reverie about the “World’s Most Unusual Lumber Yards.”ADADI was not alone. Janet Halperson of Camp Springs, Md., sent me photos of her boxes of Hechinger nails. Jack Melnikoff of Leesburg, Va., found that his Hechinger nails had rusted out. He has a bag of Hechinger nails.

Source: Washington Post September 08, 2020 18:35 UTC