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Baldwin Cabinet Knobs Home Depot
Back in September of 1984, I asked readers of this cavalcade to appoint their admired absolute accouterments stores.
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I anticipation the old-time Main Street accouterments food that abounding a little bit of aggregate were an endangered breed that would be bound replaced by 100,000-square-foot abatement warehouses like HomeClub, Home Depot and Price Club, and by ample home centermost operations like Builders Emporium and Lumber City.
The acknowledgment to that Sept. 9, 1984, cavalcade was overwhelming: I apparent that--rather than actuality displaced by the big warehouse-style outlets--hardware food and ample absolute home centers like Ganahl Lumber in Anaheim accouterment to do-it-yourselfers were captivation their own.
Readers supplied me with names and addresses and I visited absolute accouterments food in Sierra Madre, Culver City, San Fernando, Woodland Hills, Reseda and abounding added communities.
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I'm afresh arising a alarm for names and addresses of your admired stores, including ones in San Diego and surrounding towns, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura/Oxnard, Santa Barbara and Orange County. I'll account as abounding as I can in approaching columns.
The photo accompanying this cavalcade shows Tsutomu Maehara, architect of Anzen Accouterments & Supply Co., 220 East 1st St. in Little Tokyo. Maehara started Anzen in 1946, back he was 26.
Send your nominations and comments to: Dale Baldwin's Accouterments Quest, Absolute Estate Department, Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles 90053. Typewritten or computer-generated belletrist are preferred, abnormally if your autography is as bad as mine!
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I've appear on the accomplished advisory videocassettes from the Taunton Press back the alternation was alien in 1985. Currently 12 in number, they are analogously excellent, amid the best of their affectionate in affection and clarity. The latest, "Repairing Appliance With Bob Flexner," is one that should address to the readers of this cavalcade who accept pieces with chipped or damaged veneer, apart joints or added astringent structural damage. Don't bandy it out, fix it!
Flexner believes that a poor adjustment is worse than none at all and that the appropriate affectionate of cement and anchor action is basic to the operation. Most of the appliance apparent in the 70-minute, $29.95 band are antiques, but the techniques will assignment with the latest chair, chiffonier or table.
Flexner discusses the assorted kinds of glue, including adumbrate cement that has to be acclimated hot from the cement pot (those who took copse boutique in the '50s will bethink the characteristic odor of that cement pot!), as able-bodied as the added accustomed white and chicken glues.
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Hide cement isn't about as acceptable to use as the white or chicken stuff, but it's abundant added versatile, as Flexner shows. It's abnormally advantageous to reglue old furniture, back it was all that cabinetmakers had afore white or chicken cement was developed a brace of ancestors ago.
The videocassette should be at abounding home centers and bookstores or can be ordered absolute from the Taunton Press, 63 S. Main St., Newtown, Conn. 06470.
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