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The store stocks around 1,200 titles and has an estimated 4,000 members who regularly rent movies. [14] [15] In 2018, 10 Barrel, a local brewery, released a dark ale celebrating the store, named The Last Blockbuster (with flavor hints of red licorice); [16] it was released at a block party celebrating the store (when it had become the last in ...
The Old Mill District formerly housed two competing lumber mills. In 1916 the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company built a mill on the west bank of the Deschutes River and Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company built the "Mill A" complex on the east bank. [8] For the next 78 years, the mills dominated Bend's economy, pumping money and business into the town.
Tandy Leather store in Eugene, Oregon. Tandy Leather began as a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas in 1919. [6] Norton Hinckley and Dave L. Tandy partnered to start the Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company and concentrated their efforts on selling sole leather and other supplies to shoe repair dealers in Texas.
The N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is a historic commercial building in Bend, Oregon, United States. The structure was built in 1909 by Nichols P. Smith, a Bend businessman. The two-story building originally housed a hardware business on the ground floor with family quarters on the second floor. The building is located on the Northwest Wall ...
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Les Schwab founded the company with a single store in Prineville, Oregon, when he bought OK Rubber Welders in 1952. Corporate headquarters were moved from Prineville to Bend in 2008. [2] From 1964 until 2011, the firm offered an innovative February "Free-Beef" promotion, [3] [4] to boost sales during slow late-winter months.