Things I have found here: a roll of tickets, Jack London-style snowshoes. Yarn. Apricot parfait. Carhartt sweaters.
The scent of a female deer.
Yard ornaments in the shape of an anthropomorphic frog doing yoga poses (badly).
In 1995 Dan estimated that the stock might be around a quarter of a million items displayed in 13,000 square feet of sales space.
The front part of the store contains approximately 10% of the stock –it is not until you reach the back, do you begin to realize the extent of offerings.
I can remember any number of times just needing one size special screw [to make something work.]…I would seek out Whit, and he would drop everything.
‘Well, let’s see Doc, come on over here.” … He delighted in fixing things for which he would charge nothing.”
The basement is as large as the main store where vast amounts of goods are stored as is the huge supply of wood for the store’s main source of heat—a large wood furnace that goes through 16 – 20 cords of wood a year.