LMGI COMPASS
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Winter 2024
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HOMETOWN APPLIANCES: UNMASKED
While nearly every single property on Kihekah Avenue
required work, perhaps none required more than Hometown
Appliances, a store which would come to serve as one of the
focal points on the street.
Hometown Appliances sells washers, dryers, TVs and other
electronics to the community and the owner has owned the
building for decades.
At first, what they were asking wasn't going to be a big
deal. But then Fisk decided to combine two different sets
into one—the billiard parlor and barbershop—where several
critical scenes take place.
It was an idea borne out of a memory Fisk had from growing
up in rural Illinois—a memory of his mother taking him to
get his hair cut in a pool hall. When the art department later
pulled up fire maps from Osage County during the period,
they discovered that, of the three pool halls in the area at the
time, two had barbershops.
Keener already knew the owner from the first iteration of
the film, so when she walked back into the store after being
away for months, he was pretty surprised. "I was like, 'here
we are again! We're really going to do it now,'" says Keener.
The owner was on board, but he really wanted to keep his
Photo by Cait Murray/LMGI
