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Answering the bell for 54 years

COAST HARDWARE OWNER JIM DULCICH RETIRES FROM HIS TOWN’S FIRE SERVICE AFTER FIVE DECADES.

He’s been putting out fires for 54 years as a Mariposa, California, town volunteer fireman. And now he’s retired.

So, he’ll just go back to handling his other job – owner of Coast Hardware, a Do it Best dealer, located in this town of 2,000, first settled in 1849 in the Gold Rush era, with Yosemite National Park in its backyard.

“My goal was to retire at age 70,” said Jim Dulcich recently in a phone call.

“Then I said I’d retire at age 80 – and finally did it. It was not hard to retire.”

Hardware customers and emergency services “customers” he’s helped over the decades, are often one in the same.

“There was a rescue we made down in a canyon, and we had to cut a lady out of a car,” he said. “It was near Briceburg toward Yosemite. She was coptered out. The pilot just happened to be flying there on another mission and lifted her out to safety.”

The woman is a regular customer at his hardware store and was at his recent retirement party. That’s just one example of how close the Mariposa community is.

The retired fireman must pause to help a hardware customer for a moment.

Coast Hardware started in 1984, he said. “I took over from my parents who owned the building and had run it as a grocery store.”

So how did he juggle both jobs?

“More than once I dropped everything and went out on calls and left the store to my staff to run.”

Today people come into the store and recognize Jim for his dedication through the years. His daughter Heidi said he’s not the type of person who seeks the recognition. “They had to make him come to his retirement party.”

She added: “Customers come into the hardware store today and thank him all the time. It was our life. He was on call for 54 years.”

Jim Dulcich, retired fireman after 54 years, is the owner of Coast Hardware. PHOTO BY JOANNA RANSOM PHOTOGRAPY ©2022

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