5/7/2023 0 Comments Handy hardware![]() ![]() These name brand products are distributed to over. ![]() just behind their last location in the Tucker Plaza business complex across from Publix. Handy Hardware is a wholesale hardware distributor providing a broad offering of nearly 50,000 items. They’ve been in Tucker for 37 years and during that time have had three different locations close to Main St. The company also has another Ace Hardware in Dacula, Ga. Handyman Ace Hardware stores have been family-owned and operated since 1939. ![]() They sold that store and opened General Hardware in Bookhaven in 1976, which they still own and Joe manages. Howard’s grandfather actually started their first hardware in Decatur in 1935. We placed a special order for them it was definitely the last one to be seen around here.”īeing in the area for 75 years, their stores have made such a significant contribution that they occupy several pages of the DeKalb County Historical Society business edition. They got in a serious car accident and decided it was safer to have a horse and buggy. He would sit in the front and his wife would sit with her legs dangling off in the back. “There was kind of a strange couple who preferred to ride around town with a two horse wagon. According to his dad, Joe Smith, their original Decatur store was actually the last to sell a horse drawn carriage in the 1950s. ![]()
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