After nearly 80 years in business, Hillhurst Hardware ponders future as retirement looms for owner, writes columnist David Parker.

I always wondered what the deal with was with the hardware store on 10th Street in the middle of Kensington.

Hillhurst Hardware has been in business at that same location since 1945 when Abraham Henry Sigler, just after the end of the Second World War, took out a $5,000 loan to buy what at that time was called the Piggly Wiggly grocery store.