Lucy White grew up playing in the hardware store her grandfather had purchased in downtown Eugene in 1925.
“It was kind of the center of everything, the store,” she told Lookout Eugene-Springfield.
It still is. White and her husband, Terry, both 77, own Eugene True Value Hardware at 28th and Willamette streets, where the store moved in the 1960s. Their son, Doug, works in the shop, as have many other family members over the years…