While business at the swap meet dipped, Solberg was doing just fine: He had opened his own store, Kent’s Tools, a 3,000-square-foot store at 133 E. Grant Road.
“We felt the used tool market would support a permanent store front, allow us to sell six days a week, and we didn’t have to brave the elements,” he says.
Others also got their start at the swap meet and then struck out on their own, including the McPhersons, who opened Mac’s Indian Jewelry at 2400 E. Grant Road.
