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After "working 88 hours a weeks for 18 years," Dave Haskin, who owns and runs the place with his wife, Gisela, are ready to take it easy.
A liquidation sale starts this week. The business will shut down late next month, leaving Capitol Ace at 18th and I streets as the only remaining hardware store in the downtown area.
Like other family-run hardware operations, Broadway Hardware saw competition from big-box discounters like Home Depot. The economic slowdown made things worse, cutting sales by 25 percent over the past year, Haskin says.
Still, he says, the business remained profitable.
...Speaking of Broadway Hardware, the place boasts a fascinating subterranean surprise: a massive, basement bomb shelter built at the start of World War II.
Taking up half of the store's footprint, its 8-foot-thick walls are made from reinforced concrete.
The Haskins used it for storage. Dave thinks a new building tenant could put it to better use: "It would make a perfect wine cellar," he says.
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