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HISTORY FOR SALE - Stade. Hardware on Goshen
put up for sale. Owner Harold Stade has preserved
its 1915'state.
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Stade Hardware and Zurich history put up
Sometime in early 1915, the
workers at Preeter's hard-
ware store in Zurich, posed
for a picture.
One of the men leaned
casually the curved glass
displa ase. Above hung
work gloves, while below
were rope and chain fittings.
To the left was a display of
stoves. A poster advertising
an area event was curved
over one of the display cases.
The poster was dated for
March 10, 1915.
Walking into Stade Hard-
ware on a spring day in 1982,
you can see the same glass
diplay cases.
Above hang work gloves
and below are new chain fit-
tings. To the left are modern
stoves, while a poster, adver-
tising a current area event is
curved over one of the display
Gases...
As if magnifying the sense
of timelessness, a display of
wood burning stoves lulls the
visitor into thinking it really
is 1915.
When asked about changes
over the years, owner Harold
Stade says he "didn't try too
hard - just didn't change it."
Stade's father Rudolph
came to Zurich in 1911.
The elder Stade practised
his trade as a harness maker
until 1918, at which time he
took over the hardware store
with partner Earl H'eido.
The business was previous-
ly owned by John Preeter who
retained the other half of the
building as a dry goods
business until 1924. After that,
the business continued as a
dry goods store, followed by
a furniture showroom and is
now empty.
Though the early history of
the building is unclear, Stade
said he believed it had been a
hardware store since the
1890s. It was once owned by
Charles Greb who later went
ono become mayor of
Kitner.
- Stade said the oldest date he
has found in the store is a pen-
ciled notation on the frame
of the back window.
A viewer now, as in the
past, can see Goshen Street
from this side window. The
notation reads: " lights com-
menced burning - Feb. 21-
1900"
Stade noted that though
there was no hydro in the
village until 1917, the
William's, flour mill (where
the fire hall now stands)
generated electricity for
street lighting from 1895 to
1917.
- Stade took over his father's
share of the business in 1946
and continued the Stade and
Weido partnership until
Weido's death in 1967.
At the back of the store,
near afunctional but elegant
heavy wooden staircase is an
old clock. -
"That thing must have been
there 75 years," Stade says,
adding the only time the clock
doesn't keep time is when he
forgets to wind it.
In the opposite corner, a
loop of thick rope hangsfrom
the ceiling. It is part of a hand
operated elevator still used to
lift items to second floor
storage.
Stade noted the store was a
Sherwin-Williams paint
dealership when his father
took over. An antique rack
now holds modern sales
brochures for "Sherwin-
Williams paints and
varnishes".
The glass showcases are
marked "Catling & Essex
Makers, London, Ont." and
"Dominion Showcase MFG.
Co. with a Toronto address.
They are undated and Stade
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said that so far, no visitors to
his store had heard of either
company.
Though the stock is new,
many of the sales racks and
boxes are antiques. Wooden
barrels hold nails and wooden
cases marked 'shotgun shells'
hold bolts. Coach screws and
corks sit in wood boxes labi-
ed "Golden Spray pasturized
loaf cheese" Some parts, not
sold, are still in original boxes
in the display cases, or hang-
ing from racks.
Stade noted the counters
-which support the curved
glass cases wereappraised5y
an antique buyer at about $800
to $900.
Perhaps one of the reasons
for not making any changes in
the building or the layout was
the ease in locating items.
This is the key to a business
which sells so many different
things, . Stade says. "I could
come in here blindfolded," he
adds, "and pick out what a
customer wanted."
Stade said he gets a lot of
summer trade from cottagers
from London and the United
States who seem to like the
antique style of the store.
"They keep saying 'don't
every change it - keep it the
same', Stade says of his
sumtner visitors.
About . the only change
Stade could point out was that
the store, like many business
today, doesn't keep a large
stock. The past's rows of
stoves is now two stoves and
a couple of wood burning
stoves.
A newer furnace and duct-
work has replaced the old pot-
bellied stove. "I used to hear
a lot of tales," Stade said of
the locals who would con-
gregate around the stove.
Another change is that it
may not be Stade Hardware
for much longer. -
Stade, who is now 65, has
the business up for a sale. He
has bought a house in
Kelowna, B.C. and plans to
move there to be closer to his
family.
His son Rick is with the
RCMP in Kelowna and two
other children live in San •
Diego.
Stade hopes to sell the
business to someone who will
carry on. He would like to
keep the store and fixtures
together, but "if I can't get a
buyer, I'll just have to sell the
stock at a discount and hold
for sale
an auction," Stade said.
Stade said he would pro-
bably miss Zurich, for awhile.
He's looking forward to life in
the Okanagan Valley sur-
rounded by mountains and en-
joying B.C. weather.
Visiting Stade Hardware
is like being in a time warp or
the Twilight Zone of 1915.
While the other half of the
building has seen a dry goods
and later a furniture store
come and go and now lies
empty, from the faded "hard-
ware" painted on the front of
the building, past the stained
glass windows, the display
case and the elevator to the
workshop in the back, Stade
Hardware is curiously
preserved.
A piece of Zurich's history
is up for sale. .
DISPLAYS UNCHANGED - These curved glass display
cases and the items shown around them have been part
of a similar display in Stade Hardware since 1915.
Of museums and cities
The city of Washington D.C.
is a blend of contrasts and
contradictions.
My Easter weekend was
spent in the capital city of the
United. States, more
specifically in the buildings of
the Smithsonian Institute.
The Institute is prehaps the
largest and probably the
finest museum in the world.
The public galleries are hous-
ed in 13 buildings each about
the size of the ROM building
in Toronto. Eight of the
largest buildings line -the
mall, a treed grassy parkway
running from the Lincoln
Memorial, past the spire of
the Washington monument,
through the gauntlet of the
museum buildings and ending
at the steps of the capitol
itself.
The length of the mall is im-
pressive when tired feet are
carrying you to the next
museum, but is dwarfed by
the size of the buildings and
the height of the Washington
monument.
The capitol itself could
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swallow several Ottawa
parliament buildings, yet it
appears light and airy --
almost fantasy -like with
domes and countless pillars.
The contrasting size dif-
ferentials is also shown in the
museum buildings
themselves.
Inside the Air and Space
Museum, full-size. aircraft
w
brutal statistics can't mar.
About three weeks ago I did
a small story on a gentleman
who had a "Napoleonic"
sword up for auction. The
sword was said to have fought
in the battle of Waterloo in
June of 1815.
Comparing some dates and
ages of the person said to
have owned it, and judging by
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suspended from the ceiling
make the building look
smaller on the inside than
from without --which
parallels the full size blue
whale dwarfing the displays
of fish and 'crustaceans in the
museum of Natural History.
Old and new also contrast.
Next to the original
Smithsonian Building, a red
brick turreted affair. is the
ultra modern Hirshorn
Gallery, a large raised torus.
The mall glows with
meticulous maintenance and
constant updating and
rebuilding. A block downtown
are the boarded -up shops and
the litter and graffiti of the
true American city.
Securityguardsare resplen -
dent in dark uniforms while a
shoeless tramp stretches out
on a park bench. -
Jets fly past the monument,
a constant in -and -out of
travellers. The weather is fine
and clear, but a new section
of a Potomac bridge shows a
dad .when it wasn't so fine.
Certain statistics should
never be calculated.
The most discouraging
aspect of a weekend trip is' the
amount of driving time. when
compared to the amount of
holiday.
The museums open at 10 in
the morning and close at 5:30.
We spent Saturday and half of
Sunday wandering through
the history of a nation and the
world.
The Institute has been
referred to as the nation's at-
tic, and directors over the
years have managed to salt
away at least one of
EVERYTHING.
A glance at the guidebook to
the museum showed
countless displays there .was
just no time to look at. Of note
_ in the book is the fact that on-
ly one percent of the In -
Zurich Mennonite stitute's holdings are on
Church display.
However it was an 1 t hour
drive down and the same 11
hours home.: All for an IP
hours of history.
But Washington on a spring
day is an experience even
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the look of the sword, I felt is
may have come fromlate bat-
tles in the Crimea, 1854-56.
However, in a display of
American histoor in the
Smithsonian'l saw a similar
sword which dated from the
American Revolution of the
late 17005. I was right in one
aspect. in that both swords
were lighter. more ornamen-
tal. officers blades. (British
swords tended to have
heavier blades and knuckle-
duster hilts -to be used in
melee.)
So, in its better days in 1815.
the sword now owned by
Wallace Makins of Exeter.
may have seen battle and the
cataclysmic end of
Napoleon's empire.
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