Miner's Ace Hardware Inc.

When a small hardware store in Grover City came up for sale in 1956, brothers Lee and Glen purchased the business for their young families. For the next several years, Lee and Glen (along with their first employee, Wally Lewis) worked tirelessly to build the business. Seventy-hour workweeks were the norm, and profits were continually reinvested to fund expansion. In 1972, Miner's joined Ace Hardware, a buying co-op owned entirely by independent dealers. The years that followed brought significant growth. The Grover Beach store quadrupled in size, and the Miner's team went on to open additional locations in Arroyo Grande (1986), Morro Bay (1997), Los Osos (2000), Atascadero (2002), San Luis Obispo (2010), Santa Paula (2017), Goleta (2019), and Paso Robles (2026).