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Spruce/Munroe Sisters' Hardware

Owned by the Munroe sisters, Carol and Nancy, this hardware shop has been a fixture in Gray Harbor for decades, and looks it. It's in an old brick building that used to be a bakery; that shut down in the 1930s, and Archibald Munroe bought it on speculation that Gray Harbor could become the next big West Coast town to boom in the wake of the Great Depression. He was off by some miles, as Seattle's where the action wound up, but the hardware store is one of the only ones in the area and so it persists.

There's a big green street-facing banner that reads MUNROE HARDWARE, and at some point Carol and Nancy paid to have a modest SISTERS' sign in black and white made and nailed it diagonally off their surname. The windows and front are crowded with signs indicating what they carry, which amounts to 'a whole lot'. There's parking out front along the street, and a small gravel lot in back against the concrete pad at the back of the store; the pad is where deliveries come in, so this section isn't always available.