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Hop’s Place, Inc.

Serving Families and Servicing Cars Since 1922

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  Hop’s Place, founded in 1922, has remained a family owned and operated full service automotive parts and paint supply store, an automotive glass repair and replacement facility, and an auto machine shop and auto repair shop all rolled into onecorporation. Hop’s Place has maintained its reputation for quality of merchandise and excellence of personal service for 95 years due to the company’s experienced and dedicated associates. The strength of Hop’s Place has always been its employees.

 
 

The History of Hop’s Place

In 1922, G. Chandler Hopkins, a former Fleischmann’s Yeast route salesman, and George S. Tyree, his brother-in-law, began Hop’s Place on Queen Street in a corner of the Brittingham Furniture Company building, which was diagonally across from St. John’s Church in downtown Hampton, Virginia. Hop’s Place, during the early years, sold automotive parts, tires, and accessories\

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In 1925, a devastating fire destroyed the four story Brittingham Furniture Company building. Fortunately, Mr. Chandler Hopkins and Mr. George Tyree had recently moved their business. The Newport News Times-Herald reported January 12, 1925, that Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Tyree “recently completed a large and imposing filling station and supply store on 17 and 19 Armistead Avenue where they started business this morning”.

Hop’s Place, a Gulf gasoline distributor for ashort time, was primarily an Amoco (American Oil Company) gasoline distributorand was supplied by the Hornsby Oil Company. In addition to automotive parts, tires, accessories and gasoline Hop’s Place began to offer other products and services such as tire retreading, Exide automobile batteries, complete lubrication, automobile washing and simonizing, vulcanizing andgeneral auto repair. Hop’s Place began selling the Ditzler brand of automotive

paint after World War II. The Ditzler name eventually changed to PPG and now Hop’s Place is a Platinum Distributor for PPG Paint. Factory colors can be matched back to the 1920’s.

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