'To customers of Lewter Hardware, (Donnie Lewter) was a Huntsville icon,' contributing columnist Beth Thames writes.
Who doesn’t love a hardware store — a real one, with sleds and shovels, pipes and paint, and a bunch of customers who seem to know each other and the two cats perched on the counter?
Donnie said he had two families: His blood kin at Lewter Hardware, founded in 1928, and his friends and customers whose names he knew or eventually learned. His father, Donald Sr., knew his customers well, too, and just what they were looking for. Every town in the South used to have a hardware store like Lewter, one that sold more than nuts and bolts and screws, things that hold the world together. A good hardware store also sold itself, from the neatly arranged shelves to the knowledgeable salespeople who work there.
He had names for his customers and their families. Parents were “mama and daddy,” as in, “How’s your mama and your daddy?” Wives were “boss ladies.” All of his conversations were delivered in a soft, Southern drawl. You didn’t need to be in a hurry when Donnie was talking. That would have been rude. And it wouldn’t have done any good, anyway.
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