The public is invited to a Thanksgiving Eve (Wed. Nov. 22, 2000) event, from 6 -7 p.m. at the former Weiss Hardware store.

The occasion is the public unveiling of the store’s new display, “A Look Into The Past.” Cider and doughnuts will be served.

The event’s sponsor is Windows on Warren (WOW), a group created to bring about a visual revitalization of the windows on Warren Street. WOW cares about the appearance of Beverly City’s most public thoroughfare and wants it to show.

Their first project has been the windows of the former David Weiss Hardware, now empty and for sale.

Weiss Hardware sold a wide variety of items – from hammers and nails to pots and pans – if you could name it, you knew you could probably find it at Weiss’. 

WOW has displayed similar interesting items from the near and far past in the Weiss windows: old tools, bottles, clocks, a kerosene stove, fabrics, children’s toys and old calendars  – all items that could have been sold in an old-fashioned hardware/housewares store.

The Weiss exterior will be spiffed up as well, the old sign redone with paint donated by Burleigh’s Paint and Paper, Rt. 130 in Burlington City.

There have been a series of work sessions with volunteers from Beverly and Edgewater Park  meeting on Wednesday evenings at the store. One enthusiastic volunteer has been Marvin Weiss, who for many years ran the store that his father began in 1924.

The next WOW planning meeting will be on Nov. 1, 2000, at 7 p.m. at the Beverly Free Library on Cooper Street. All who care about the revitalization of the City of Beverly are invited to this meeting.

The fixing-up of other empty storefronts will be on the agenda as well as a discussion of other improvements to Beverly City’s appearance.

If fixing windows isn’t your interest, another group, Concerned Citizens of Beverly (CCB) will be represented at this meeting. (More about CCB on page 4)

For  more information or to lend old items for future windows projects (all items will be returned) call 387-1773 or see Gerda at the Beverly FMS Bank.

See you Thanksgiving Eve, Nov. 22, 2000, 6 -7 p.m., at Weiss Hardware on Warren Street.

Good things are happening in Beverly City.