The closure of A.A. Baker’s Hardware...

The closure of A.A. Baker’s Hardware at the corner of San Fernando

and Los Feliz roads marks the end of an era. The store has been a

part of the local scenery since the Baker family opened it in 1915.

For years, the store expanded little by little from its original

1,600 square feet to its current 17,000 square feet. Brett Thomson,

who bought the store in 1975, has liquidated the inventory and leased

the 2.2-acre property to Sav-On Drugs. The hardware store closed its

doors Sunday for the last time, and the building could be demolished

as early as next month.

Thomson will sell off the last of its assets -- including shopping

carts, computers, shelves and other office equipment -- in a yard

sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 28 and 29.