MARBLETOWN – “First I put a couple of small photos up by the popcorn machine,” said Brian Murphy, owner of Marbletown Hardware, also known as ‘The World’s Only Rock and Roll Hardware Store.’
“Then we added a couple over there and everyone loved it.”
That was in 1994 and Brian had just bought the store from his partners. At the time, he says, the hardware business was largely contractor-oriented, pretty much a male-only community, and unfriendly to outsiders. Brian wanted to change that. Hardware therapy he calls it.
“Two guys would come in,” he said. “One would be into the hardware thing and the other would be bored out of his tree. So, I added the rock ‘n’ roll pictures for him. Hardware therapy.”
