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Glaze's Grocery Store (and Tru-Value Hardware)
The buildings which made up the former Glaze's Grocery and Hardware stores at the intersection of Peeler Road and Winters Chapel Road were demolished over a period of a week during the month of June 2011.

Back in the 1930's Herman Thomas Glaze and his wife Kate moved to the North DeKalb County area which is now Dunwoody. Herman started a simple grocery, feed & grain store in the rural community. He also operated a grain mill, powered by an auto engine.

Gasoline was also sold at the store. In 1953 the store burned down completely as the result of a spark during the milling of corn. The event was reported in the Atlanta Journal.

Herman (also known to many as H.T.) operated the store into the 1960's when he sold it to two of his sons.

The store did well during the 60's and 70's, even when the Winn-Dixie opened up as the anchor store in a shopping center across Winter's Chapel Road. One of Herman's sons was a butcher, and built up the butcher business over those years and it became well known as a premiere location for quality meats.

In the 1980's a hardware store was added on to the business and built a good reputation among both homeowners and businesses as a great place to find hard to get hardware items. In the 1990's the Grocery part of the store closed down, and Glaze's Tru-Value Hardware was the remaining business until the 21st Century when it was closed and moved to a location on Highway 141 in Cumming, Georgia. The property was sold to developers and has remained undeveloped.