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Article: When the power grid goes down: Survivalists seek out hardware store that serves Amish Country. (Opener).(Yoder's Shipshewana Hardware)(Brief Article)
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- Indiana Business Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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Pull into the lot at Yoder's Shipshewana Hardware and, at first glance, it seems about like any other independent, small-town hardware store: some 14,000 square feet, tucked into a little shopping plaza, an affiliate of Fort Wayne-based Do It Best Corp. like a lot of Indiana's Mom and Pop hardware stores, a place where one can find everything from a lockwasher to a washboard.
Washboard? Yep. Right by the square-sided washtubs, and not far from the shelves displaying oil lamps and hand-cranked grain mills. Maybe this isn't such a run-of-the-mill little hardware store you've wandered into... come to think of it, those were hitching racks Out front, with horses tied ...
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