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Now, “we are getting all settled,” Mr. Brown said, sitting in the small office space behind the customer service area that includes nearly all of the ground space of the new building.
Moving a home with small odds and ends can be tiresome; moving a store with hundreds of boxes of parts and accessories takes patience and organization.
Sometimes clerks will reach for something that is not “right there” but, all-in-all, business in the new B&B Service Center building is just as usual, Mrs. Brown said with a smile.
Rappahannock County citizens are familiar with the Browns’ choice of building. It was once known as Elmer’s 66 and, years ago, was a Ford dealership.
While the old building was changed little when the Browns began their renovations, its new coat of paint, neat and tidy interior and expanded store area gives it different appearance.
“We actually have about the same square footage,” Mr. Brown said with a wave of his hand, to include the garage area, to the left, and the store, comparing it to the old building on the outskirts of Washington.
“It’s just all on one level,” he said with a smile.
But, the new store includes 25 percent more inventory than the Browns’ other service center, a fourbay garage for car maintenance, inspection and repairs, a newly acquired wheel-aligment machine, the first of its kind in Rappahannock County, and a lift for easy acess for under-the-car repairs.
Leaving behind the tiny garage outside Washington was like leaving behind a first home for the Browns. After years of working in the building, once an Amoco station and years before even a restaurant, it was home.
“Even though I was anxious about this move, I hated to go,” Mike said, a bit of nostalgia ringing in his voice as his eyes looked far away to his old service center. “I used to walk to work,” he said of the past, adding his closeness also allowed him to be there whenever he saw a car stop. “Even if I was closed,” he said with a smile, “I’d run over and try to help. ”
“It was real close in there,” Mike
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