{"id":18436,"date":"2016-04-05T00:48:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T00:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=18436"},"modified":"2016-04-05T01:01:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T01:01:41","slug":"marx-hardware-paint-co-inc-est-1875-st-louis-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2016\/04\/05\/marx-hardware-paint-co-inc-est-1875-st-louis-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Marx Hardware &#038; Paint Co., Inc. &#8211; Est. 1875 &#8211; St. Louis, MO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/mo\/st-louis-mo-marx-hardware01.jpg?resize=580%2C1029\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"1029\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paints &#8211; Window Glass &#8211; Varnishes &#8211; Wholesale \u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/mo\/st-louis-mo-marx-hardware02.jpg?resize=580%2C327\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sporting Goods &#8211; Retail \u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/mo\/st-louis-mo-bakery.jpg?resize=580%2C1029\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"1029\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Steve Marx, along with his brother Andy, runs Marx Hardware &amp; Paint Co. in the Old North neighborhood.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> CREDIT MARIA ALTMAN | ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Established: 1875 by Frederick Marx<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Location: 2501 N. 14th St., Old North neighborhood<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Current owners: Brothers Steve and Andy Marx, great-great-grandsons of founder<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Clientele: Mostly residential customers<\/em><br \/>\n<em> There\u2019s no arguing this hardware store is the oldest in the city.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;I would say probably the oldest family-operated retail business in the city of St. Louis,&#8221; said Steve Marx.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Walking into Marx Hardware &amp; Paint Co. feels a bit like taking a trip into the past with its hardwood floors, hand-painted signs and a wood-burning stove that keeps the place warm. The brothers have kept a lot of things from bygone days, including an old plaque for the St. Louis Hardware Retailers Association, a group that no longer exists.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;Hardware stores were like bakeries, barbershops \u2014 every few blocks there was one and a tavern in every corner and everybody made a living in this town,&#8221; Marx said. &#8220;It\u2019s so difficult to see the change.&#8221; &#8211; <\/em><strong>St. Louis Public Radio<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Marx, along with his brother Andy, runs Marx Hardware &amp; Paint Co. in the Old North neighborhood. CREDIT MARIA ALTMAN | ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO Established: 1875 by Frederick Marx Location: 2501 N. 14th St., Old North neighborhood Current owners: Brothers Steve and Andy Marx, great-great-grandsons of founder Clientele: Mostly residential customers There\u2019s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[110,709,2016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bakeries","category-hardware","category-st-louis-mo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-4Nm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18439,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436\/revisions\/18439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}