I remember Star Furniture well, as a young boy in the '40's. Each December the Wombles boy and I would go to town to pick up "free" calendars and ink blotters for our families. My mother, Alice Muncy, loved the "Blue Bird" calendars that Star Furniture gave away. Later in the '40's, the same Wombles boys and I had Hazard Herald paper routes. We always stopped in the doorway of the Star Furniture if it was raining to fold our newspapers. In the '50's after I married Percie Price of Lothair we bought furniture from them. I remember Thelma Ihrig worked there for a while. I hate to see the old building go. It brought back pleasant memories when we visited Hazard. We live in Puyallup, Washington now but visit when we can. Dexter Muncy, Puyallup,Washington As a Hazard native I have to say I hate to see all of the old buildings destroyed. All the bridges and old buildings are what Hazard is about. Please don't change everything. Butch Williams, Gravel Switch I was given a three piece cedar bedroom set from my mother. The tale goes that it originally was bought by my great-grandmother, Nellie Hill in Hazard, passed on to Ruby Turner, passed on to my grandmother Hessie Carns Campbell, and then given to my mother Ruby Campbell Barham. It was manufactured by Lykins Furniture and then later sold by Star Furniture Company in Hazard. This web-site is great as my family was originally from Hazard even though they have been gone many years. Rita
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