Berg Hardware
Apr 2nd, 2007 by Jill
Berg Hardware Co.
Berg Hardware front doors
Pots and pans and signs
All kinds of wonders
Behind the counter
Berg Hardware
495 N Altadena Dr
Pasadena, CA 91107
(626) 793-6161
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Some will point to the fabulous TruValue on north Fair Oaks with its incredible supply of paint.
Some people will point to Crown City hardware, where a fist-sized bag of antique brass window latches cost me a hundred bucks and their motto is “You’ll only cry once when you buy us.”
I think it’s more like this: Crown City is like the West Side of Los Angeles — many beautiful things, many well-to-do people, but when it comes right down to it, the people who do the real work are out in Burbank.
(Work with me here….)
Berg is like the magical Burbank of hardware, time-warped back to some time in the 1963 when you could wander into the hardware store and say “The bolt holding my office chair together has sheared off, plugging the bolt hole beyond my ability to vice-grip my way out of said predicament and return my chair to functionality.”
The guy behind the counter will look at you with that same kindly look that folks reserve for very small children and explain that you need a tap-out, a reverse-threaded thingie that you can pound into a small hole bored in the center of the sheared bolt, then unscrew. The reverse threading will help it grip as you apply counter-clockwise rotation “And that bad boy will be gone.”
$0.59, hand written on a green receipt, and a customer will be leaving fanatic blog comments about the place a decade after the sale.
Best ****ing hardware store in the San Gabriel Valley.