Made of Iron

I have a lot of kitchenware.  Most of it thanks to my memere, Genevieve Vaillancourt, who passed away in 2009. 

One item (or set of items) of note is her four-piece set of Wagner Ware iron skillets. 

Living in an apartment on lower Maple Street in 1950 with her newlywed husband, Roland, she walked to Strong Hardware to buy them.  She was a woman just over 5 feet tall, and they were iron skillets to be carried back with her; she bought them one at a time.

Strong Hardware, along with a restaurant, saloon, and its namesake 1,500 seat theater, was housed in the Strong Theater building at the corner of Main and South Winooski.  The building was completed in 1904 and stood at that site until it was razed following a 1971 fire.  It is now the site of the 6-story Courthouse Plaza building.

Thank you memere and pepere, they still get plenty of use.