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Memorable Old Columbia, KY: A doorway to the past 2009-11-15 - Adams Alley, Columbia, KY - Photo by Pen. The doorway, now a boarded up window opening over Adams Alley near the new addition to City Hall, and the concrete stub at its base will tickle the memory banks of many of the 60s up residents of Columbia. The "Parts Department" door opened onto a bridge over Adams Street which led from C.R. Hutchison & Sons Hardware, where 4 Seasons Consignment is today, to their warehouse across the alley. From the Square, one would have gone past window displays on the street, past counters and gondolas and showcases filled with Case Knives, house goods, bins of loose nails and bolts, and a company headquarters office, to enter the door marked "Parts Dept." to traverse the bridge and enter the building annex, which also house the shop and storage area for John Deere tractors. Real ones. The kind you didn't have to see to know its brand. You knew the two cylinder engines by the wonderful sound they emitted. And the feeling they evoked put you in one of two major parties: Those who loved green with yellow John Deeres, and those who loved the red Farmalls and hooted at those in Green. The doorway brings back a memory such six or seven decades ago which seem eons and epochal to a youngster today. It was another world. A wonderful one. When the clerks were the owners, Raymond, Robert, and Edwin, the sons of C.R. Hutchison, when credit was not an automated swipe, but a nod to the owner to "put that down," an authorization to enter another debit in what was usually an already overburdened ledger. Read More... | Permalink | Comments?

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