Huggins Hardware

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1. 1944–1968 Vic and Rebecca Huggins run Huggins Hardware on East Franklin Street The Hugginses bought the University Hardware Company and opened Huggins Hardware on March 22, 1944, adding kitchenware and general merchandise to the keys, paint and tools. They sold the store in 1968. Chapel Hill-Carrboro Business Hall of Fame: Vic Huggins
2. 1968 Vic Huggins sells his East Franklin hardware store but lets it keep his name Huggins sold the store he had owned since 1944, and Huggins Hardware ran on under new owners until Miami Subs replaced it between 1989 and 1993. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 335
3. between 1989 and 1993 Huggins Hardware closes and Miami Subs takes its East Franklin store The hardware store that had carried Vic Huggins's name since the 1940s was replaced by a Miami Subs sandwich shop. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 375

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