YORBA LINDA

Yorba Linda Hardware, a fixture in the community for 73 years that was in danger of closing, will remain open. A Rancho Cucamonga woman has made on offer on the historic Main Street storefront and will take over the shop Feb. 1.

Leo Reilly, the store’s owner for the past 10 years, put it up for sale late last year for an asking price of $70,000. Becky Brown, a self-proclaimed “antique nut,” plans to remodel the shop to reflect the era in which it was built.

“The intent is to reflect the past, not the future,” she said. “We want to make it look like an old-fashioned hardware store.”

One of her first plans is to commission an artist to make a life-size wooden statue of Richard Nixon, which she would place at the store’s entrance.