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Weird America at Hippo Hardware

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VIDEO: Shop ’till you stop. It’s Hippo Hardware - your one-stop shopping mecca in Portland, Oregon. Treasures, neat stuff, hardware, old junk and a great story behind every object. Hippo Hardware’s co-proprietor, Steve Oppenheim, tells it like it is … and the way it used to be.

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8 Responses to “Weird America at Hippo Hardware”

1. Aaron Says:
   December 18th, 2006 at 8:06 pm

   Is Weird America just visiting Portland?

   That store is neat but its not cheap stuff!!
   Did you discover the old newspaper pile upstairs? I found some from 1950 once.

   Actually, Weird America has visited many US cities. Yet it just so happens we’re running a couple of the Portland pieces before any of the others. Thank you for your comment, Aaron!

2. nicholas quixote Says:
   December 18th, 2006 at 9:50 pm

   cool place

3. Danielle Says:
   January 17th, 2007 at 5:58 pm

   You guys should check out The Outhouse in Pennsylvania. It has a bunch of funny and weird things… hard to describe other than that, teehee.

4. steve Oppenheim Says:
   March 19th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

   Hey wierdos, what a complete surprize to me to find this as a link to a new site(friendster), I just joioned. I mean I was completly flabbergasted! I never had any idea this was out there. It is like I got to the cover of Rolling Stone if I was a musician. i hope by sending the site to my own e-mail address I can then send it to all of my friends and family.
   Thankyou so very much for giving me my 15 minutes.
   Sincerly
   Steve Oppenhiem

5. Donna D. Says:
   March 20th, 2007 at 2:18 am

   Way cool Steve! I can now say I know somebody famous. Of course, Jackass the Movie could have been your big break, and now look at you, on the cover of “Weird America.” Way to GO!! Do you think anybody here has heard of Weird Al?

6. Leslie Matthews Says:
   March 20th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

   STEVE, Marc sent me this. Wow! Great to see you. Now you are even more famous. I recently ran across a pic of you and me and others taken at Washougal back in the day! What memories. We had a lot of fun on that river. I’m hopefully moving back to Portland soon (from Pullman WA). I was there last weekend, had job interview Monday. I’m trying to get on at WSU Vancouver. It was so good see you and Hippo Hardware here. The last bit of this brought a tear to my eye.

7. Edna R. (HK) Says:
   March 27th, 2007 at 5:55 pm

   Everybody was thrilled by your superb performance. Though i was not seen Hippohardware yet…!! I am delighted to see you in video Weird America, to hear your good news and congratulate you most heartily on securing such an excellent performance. It was indeed remarkable of you to beat the other……..
   I’m proud of you…

8. Bhel Says:
   September 19th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

   Hi! Steve Oppenheim.I am so proud of you having this kind of bussines.I’ve have been to your store and wow,I cant immagine you have all the stuff that people need.Hope someday I will be back and buy more stuff.Ok good luck and may you have more costumer to come.

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