on 12/13/2007 6:04 PM Jim said the following:
willshak wrote:


Jim wrote:

willshak wrote:

[....]


I thought
that 84 Lumber was named that because it was near I-84 in my
area, an EW Interstate, but then I saw one in Delaware)


[....]

I thought 84 Lumber was named that because it stocked 84
different kinds of lumber.

I do still on occasion ponder where the name did arrive from.


Ponder no more.
From: http://www.84lumber.com/about/history.asp?type=

"84 Lumber Company's origins date to 1956 when Joseph A. Hardy III
biography_joe.asp?type= opened the
original 'cash and carry' lumber yard in the rural town of Eighty Four,
Pennsylvania,
20 miles south of Pittsburgh."



Bill, that was like educational and informative.

thank you.

You're welcome. OK, we know why the lumber yard was named 84, so why
was the town named Eighty Four?
No definite answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Four,_Pennsylvania


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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
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