Let’s begin with the most underwhelming picture in the batch: Mesa AZ. This is post-war premall America on a shirt-sleeve evening - well-lit storefronts, clean sidewalks, angle-parked cars nosed up to the meters like horses chewing on their feedbags. Who was Stapley? There’s no Stapley Hardware in Mesa today, according to the Wizard of Google. I found a tombstone in the area, and that's about it. Whoever he was, he had good taste in storefronts. The all-glass facade lets everyone peer in and study the goods; the angle of the glass and the signage says you, the shopper, are going to have a completely modern shopping experience here.