Cole Hardware
Category Hardware
Address
345 9th St
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 321-2653
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Cole Hardware has been around since the 1920s, when it first opened to serve the Cole Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. Our company’s founder, Dave Karp, purchased the store in 1959. He ran the entire operation as a one-man band out of the tiny space that is now the warehouse and storage area for our Cole Street store. Dave had a genuine desire to help everyone who walked through his door—ideally making them laugh along the way! Cole Hardware thrived under his stewardship, and eventually things got busy enough that his wife, Margie, started spending her days as the store cashier. Dave and his little store grew to become a much-loved mainstay of the community. His approach to running his business could be summed up by the sign he hung over the cash register, with this motto: “There are no strangers here, just friends we haven’t met.”
Nearby Archive
- Prelinger Library301 8th St (680 feet NE)
Nearby Arts + Culture
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- Mukunda Studio1250 Folsom Street (418 feet NW)
Nearby Eat + Drink
- Azucar Lounge 299 9th St (355 feet NW)
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- Diana Market #2282 9th St (413 feet W)
- Kama Sushi Soma294 9th St (413 feet W)
Nearby Event Space
- Mukunda Studio1250 Folsom Street (418 feet NW)
- Monument140 9th St (0.2 miles NW)
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- SOMArts Cultural Center934 Brannan St (0.3 miles SE)