Some of the best stops in Nebraska don’t announce themselves. You pull off the interstate expecting a grain elevator, a post office, and maybe a stop sign, and instead you find a store that swallows most of a block.
The front door looks ordinary enough, but a few aisles in you realize the building keeps going, and going, and going. It’s the kind of place that makes you text someone a photo just to prove you were there.
A Storefront That Keeps Going
Walk through the front door of Beaver Hardware & Supply and the first impression is normal enough. Counter, register, a rack of gloves, the faint smell of cut keys and new rubber.
Then you turn the corner. Aisles stretch back farther than the storefront suggested, and rooms open into other rooms until you’ve lost track of which direction the street is…