Family-owned hardware store in Golden to close after 76 years

GOLDEN — A guided circuit walks by Arapahoe Street successful Golden, stopping to perceive the past of the golden unreserved town, fixed by a antheral successful a cowboy chapeau and tweed vest. They speech astir the 1850s and the past of however the country was founded, arsenic they beryllium successful the literal shadiness of different portion of Golden’s history: the family-owned hardware store down them.

“A batch of past that goes mode back,” Steve Shaefer said with a smile.

While the municipality itself was founded by golden rushers and settlers, it was besides built, successful immoderate tiny part, utilizing the tools and materials from Meyer Hardware.

“My grandparents started the store backmost successful 1945,” Schaefer, present the owner, told Denver7.

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