Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Mike. Places like that are truly rare in this day. When I moved to Bakersfield, CA in 2002, the U-Haul dealer that I used was an old defunct auto parts store that the owner had just stopped selling parts, and set up the U-Haul business in the showroom portion of the building. I got a short tour of the back one day, and it was as the parts department in this article, only a much broader spectrum of stuff. I asked him if he would consider selling stuff to rodders or restorers, and he said no, when he was gone his kids could do what they wanted with it.