Salt Lake Times | 1960-02-12 | Page 3 | Utah Hardware Men Look to Meetings

Utah Hardware Men Look to Meetings More than 5,000 hardware, paint, lumber, nurserymen, and variety store dealers from Utah and throughout the west will be on hand for the Western States Harware-Housewares Shows to be presented by the California Retail Hardware Association on Feb. 14 to 16. On display will be the largest concentration of hardware and houseware and allied lines ever shown under one roof in the west. More than 250 national manufacturers from 41 states will display their products which will include hundreds of items not yet on the market. Merchandise Merchan-dise on display is expected to exceed $2,000,000. Featured for the first time this year will be a modern lighting clinic, window display clinic and model store all three designed to show retailers how to better display and merchandise their products. The three day show will be staged at Brooks Hall, Civic Center, Cen-ter, San Francisco's newest exhibition ex-hibition center.