Monday, November 28, 2011

M&M Variety Hardware space for rent on Avenue B

We don't know for sure when the M&M Variety Hardware closed on Avenue B near Houston... but we can't recall seeing it open anytime recently.


The space is now for rent — $9,000 per month. One reader who shopped here thought that a hardware store had been at this location since 1950.


...and this is the work of Goggla from last fall ... during happier times for the store...

2 comments:

billy said...

Been closed for awhile, wasn't sure what was going on here. Sad to see them go. This is where I bought wood to build my bed when I first moved in to my place all those years ago, and where I bought all my roach and mice extermination supplies (thankfully not needed anymore). Good store, sad to see them closed for good.

d g said...

M&M used to be at 21 Ave. B, run by two Jewish brothers, both long tome residents of the neighborhood. I became their upstairs neighbor in 1981. I'm not sure when they opened originally. Somewhere around the mid 80's 21 Ave. B got condemned and they moved to the space that just closed. They sold it to the new owners sometime around 1990. Sorry to see it go.