This was most recently home to Lott’s True Value Hardware. I imagine it was a hardware or department store prior to that.
Lott’s True Value Hardware, Broxton
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I grew up in this place, I can still smell the hardwood floors. Can still hear MJ Lott and the farmers around that ole heater and straw back chairs taking bout fishing, tobaccer and big old rattlesnakes. Half of what I learned to be a young man came from this ole place.
My family’s wholesale hardware business sold to Lott’s Hardware in Broxton for many years, along with Lott’s Hardware #1 and #2 on Peterson Street in nearby Douglas. This was in the 1950’s–1980’s. They were all thriving businesses at the time. I worked many of their orders as a summer stock and inventory clerk, saving money for college. I later tracked their purchases when I came back after grad school and took over the credit and collections dept.
This was back before MasterCard and Visa were invented, so stores like this would have mostly operated on a cash basis, unless they offered some sort of in-house store credit. I don’t remember the relationship between the different stores, only that they always paid promptly and I always approved any orders our salesman sent in without question. Good people. Times were a lot simpler then.
i spent many mornings here loading up on shotgun shells during hunting season and fishing tackle when it wasnt.