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stock to my grandfather.
grand-opening party.
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CoTrnell’s True Value Hardware Eastchester
he business my family owns today began as a general store in the 1800s.
We’ve tracked the ownership as far back as the early 1900s when a
1. This is a mid '60s photo taken at our store on White Plains Road. On the left is
over and over is about the big fire of 1946, when Cornell’s was completely destroyed. There must have been a lot of camaraderie back then because other Tuckahoe storeown- ers and my grand- father’s hardware suppliers pitched in to help them reopen in temporary quarters nearby.
5. This 1907 pho- tograph shows the store two years before Rubly sold the business to the Cornell brothers.
6. One of the only things that survived the fire in 1946 was the brick sign you see here.
plumber named William Rubly ran it as a hardware and plumbing supply my uncle, Thomas
store in Tuckahoe. When Tuckahoe officially became a village, Rubly was
elected its second mayor and sold the store to the Cornell brothers around the supplier himself.
1909. My grandfather, John Fix, Sr., began working there after school and
on weekends in 1916 and, over time, he was given some shares of stock.
In 1932, the business faced hard times and the brothers sold the remaining they hosted a big
After a huge fire in 1946 that basically destroyed the business, we you’ll see my grand-
stayed in temporary quarters one block away. A year later, the store opened for business in the original location. Eventually, we moved to Route 22 in Eastchester.
My grandfather passed away in 1997 at the age of 95. Today, my dad, John Fix Jr., oversees the daily operations and I manage the business along with my cousin, Thomas Fix Jr., and my sister, Mary Beth Wellington.
—John Fix III, Owner, Cornell’s True Value Hardware
mother, my dad, my aunt, and my grand- father.
3. This Tuckahoe Record newspaper ad ran in September 1930. Our phone number was just 3787.
4. One of the fam- ily stories I’ve heard
Fix, and on the right
is a supplier rep and
2. When my fam-
ily opened the Eastchester branch,
From left to right,
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