Good luck !

In the 1930's; most photography was black and white.  Probably nothing as mundane as a hardware store interior was done in color.  Look in later years for something that might work.  Watch out for the type of goods displayed though.  We did not have TV's, calculators, computers or cell phones either.

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Alan

I've found a few pictures like this.  New pictures of old stores.  I'm just trying to find a head on picture.

I had good luck finding "grocery store shelves" using Google Images.

There are lots more where that came from.  To be honest, I can't tell if this is groceries or cans of paint, so using it inside a store should give the desired effect.  This is the inside of the grocery store:

That particular image was replicated and put on the back wall.  I took a different image and printed it on cardstock, then folded and pasted pieces together until I got the shelves and aisles.  This is what it looks like from outside the store:

I think this is the one you're referring to:

It's the DPM "Goodfellows Hall" building.  I used a couple of those angled, down-the-aisle shots in this one.  Here, I didn't have the luxury of dead space above the windows to hide the light bulb, so I put it behind a "shelf" as a light block.  The angled piece on the left, by the way, contains bottles of ketchup.  At this scale, they're probably gallon jugs or more.

I haven't completed the wiring of this part of the layout yet, so I'm not sure if this will be the permanent configuration.

The lady out front in the straw hat is one of Woodland Scenics "Full-Figured Folks."