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Nelson’s Hipperson’s Hardware Marks Two Anniversaries
Keeping hardware in the family GREG NESTEROFF
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family-owned Nelson business marks its 90th birthday this weekend and the tenth anniversary of its expansion. Hipperson’s Home Hardware will celebrate at both its downtown and lakeside locations with special deals and giveaways today and tomorrow. “It’s unbelievable,” says retired owner Mike Horswill, whose grandfather started the store in 1923. “I think it’s the oldest Home Hardware all in one family.” Bill Hipperson was a traveling salesman with the Nelson Hardware Co. before striking out on his own. Originally his store was at 324 Baker, but about 1937 he put up a one-storey building across the street at the current location. Second-floor apartments were added later. Hipperson also had a waterfront warehouse, where he stored carloads of Cole- From left, Hipperson’s manager John McArthur, owner Randy Horswill, and building centre manager Bob Marsh. Between the three, Greg Nesteroff photo they’ve been with the company for 82 years — 20 for McArthur, 30 for Horswill, and 32 for Marsh. man wood ranges, among other he wanted. It was just a hobby for with Home Hardware in 1981. things. centre at 101 MacDonald Drive. “The biggest internal change A few years before building the him, an hour a day.” He now divides his time between Mike was first put on the paywas going from ordering once a new store, he hired Jack Horswill, the two locations, although the a retail and wholesale grocer who roll in 1949: “I started when I was week by guess to completely com- latter is much larger. puterized,” Mike says. had married his daughter Marga- 10 working Saturday mornings. I “It’s not as old, but it’s defiswept floors and filled turpentine But it was the fourth generaret. Horswill bought the business nitely the bigger player,” Randy bottles.” tion that took the business to new says, noting this week’s birthday in the early 1950s and promised After high school and business heights: Mike’s son Randy worked party also marks a decade since not to change the name — a pact college, he returned to work with there as a teenager in the late kept by subsequent generations. that expansion. “Our lumber his father, who retired in 1975 the 1970s, started full-time around But according to Jack’s son yard is where the store used to 1983, and bought the store in Mike, his grandfather could never day he turned 65. By then, Mike be. In 2006 we expanded across had bought the business. 1997 upon his father’s retirement. the street and in 2008 expanded quite give it up. The store was previously affiliIn 2003, he also bought Arrow “I remember going to the store Story continues to ated with Marshall Wells, then Building Supply and converted and he was already retired, but ‘Five’ on Page 3 it to a Home Hardware building he’d owned it, so he could do what Link Hardware, which merged
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