Suter’s Hardware & Mason’s Locks
Union, Altoona, PA

Suter’s Hardware & Mason’s Locks Reviews

4.5 stars based on 8 reviews

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  Scott O'Neil

  5.0

  I stopped in after work tonight since my key fob was starting to fall apart. They were professional, friendly and were able to get me a replacement. Glad to support a business that has been in Altoona for 100 years.

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  Wasp Rider

  5.0

  I’ve been working on cleaning up memories that I had put in storage back when everything was analog. Me and my wife got a subscription to cent-con, but it’s taken us a few months to get around to actually transferring the data. We decided to trim what memories we would keep rather than putting everything into the new system. A daunting task, but we were excited to save storage space, and we’d heard that the new personality algorithms do such a good job of keeping people’s personalities stable you hardly need memories for more than keepsakes. We decided to review them one by one and throw out any that we don’t need anymore. It didn’t seem like it would be tough to determine which ones were extraneous. The first time I relived my memory of Suter’s I was puzzled as to why my brain had made the memory at all. It was so mundane, and it didn’t have any of the post-hoc narrative paths that our brains always construct around pivotal moments in life. Standing in the memory was me, as a child, looking around the strange store full of what seemed like impossibly boring and unimportant things, listening to my father describe a particular type of outlet cover. There was a strange taste in the building, like sawdust and cigarettes There were strange items cluttering every surface, most of which I didn’t understand the purpose of, but appearing so mundane I could not imagine rousing even the slightest interest in them. I bobbed on my knees and twisted my body back and forth, my poor under-stimulated brain straining to entertain itself through any means necessary while my father and the man behind the counter compare pieces of plastic and say such incredibly dull things as “the screws won’t match though will they?”, and “I don’t know, will a 3-prong fit this?”. This impossibly tedious experience seemed to drone on forever as my childish mind lost focus and looked higher and higher up the shelves in search of something interesting to look at or touch. Eventually my father gave a slight tug to the shoulder of my jacket as he walked by indicating it was time to leave. I followed him out of the store into the bracing cold and the memory ended. Clearly such a simple nothing of a memory did not need to be preserved. But as soon as we deleted it I could tell there was something wrong with my programming. My personality was shifting and I felt panic well up inside me. I was suddenly confused and agitated, no longer confident that I knew who I was. We quickly restored my last saved state, and I was shocked by the intense relief I felt knowing that I once again had that memory. It didn’t make any sense. Surely there must be something important there. How else could the loss of this one memory change who I am so profoundly? Was it an algorithmic hiccup? Me and my wife checked my lines of code, and I even went to a neuro-psycoder for an evaluation returning with a clean bill of health. I tried again to erase the memory, and I was shocked again to find myself changed by the loss. I take great pride in knowing myself. It is the greatest privilege to have both the time and processing power to reflect on one’s life and fully comprehend the many influences that conspired to make you the person you are. It is life’s greatest pleasures to fully understand your own life; and yet here was this memory completely undermining EVERYTHING. I relived it tens of thousands of times at this point, seeking the cause of this phenomenon, seeking out the most minute details of the memory, but I have found nothing. That is how I ended up here. I had to. I went to the physical location of Suter’s Hardware to try to reconnect with that memory. Standing in the fallen remains of the bomb-scarred brick and carbon-black, rain-damaged walls, and yet enlightenment evades me.

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  Thomas Walters

  5.0

  Very impressed and pleased with Matt’s service and work! I saved well over $250 going to him versus my car dealer. I lost my key fob to my Subaru and was SHOCKED at the cost of a replacement through the dealer. Matt saved the day! New fob works just as good as the original. Thanks again, Matt. Highly recommend!

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  Response from the owner

  Thank you! We appreciate your business! Glad we could help!

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