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The Star Building, a familiar site in Hazard for over 80 years, was demolished last week.  Located on High Street, directly across from City Hall, the structure was home to Star Furniture Company in the '20s and '30s.  Hazard Furniture occupied the building from 1943 until 1972 before moving to Lothair.  Both Star Furniture and Hazard Furniture companies advertised their location as a convenient alternative to Main Street, Hazard.  "We're out of the high rent district, ideally situated to serve our customers without the inconvenience of Main Street traffic."  Long after Star Furniture went out of business, the building continued to be known as the Star Building.  In recent years, it served as an office for the East Kentucky Bureau of the Lexington Herald Newspaper.  The building had been abandoned for some time and deemed unsafe.



Star Building during 1927 Flood


Click here to view a rare 1928 calendar


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  



photo by Cris Ritchie - Hazard Herald

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