The Hardware Store Restaurant Myth or Legend


Back years ago there was a place on the downtown bricked over mall which was the Main drag there is a store which was a restaurant. It was quite a nice wooden structure that housed a burger and sandwich joint plus some upper balcony art galleries and such. My favorite was the chocolate shop that came in and would always make my mouth water whenever I walked in for lunch with a friend. The chocolates were right at eye level and I could never leave that place without a sample of them on my person. Having said that, a few years ago they closed up and the building was sold and turned into a clothing shop for some trendy wares of one kind or another.
Now whenever the name of that restaurant comes up people wane nostalgically; one person who is the daughter of a former co-worker had a prom date in it and just the name brings up regret towards its' demise. And so I painted an oil of it because of her request for me to do so. It turned out I had some drawings of it in the notebooks I have here on my bookshelves...along with the current building still standing and with some photography and taking a look at those old drawings plus drawing upon my own memories of it's atmosphere I took it upon myself to do the painting which is in the heading of this post. It's titled: "The Hardware Store Restaurant".

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