What a great store and very friendly people I have been shopping there for the last 30 years. I bought many of tools from there and never a problem with anything. Hope they stick around another 100 years. My grandfather took me there for the first time and it brings back memories. Great video thanks for sharing.👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸💯💯🔧🔧

What?! I'm not the only weirdo who loves to walk through old hardware stores to see what's unique?

What a fabulous shop. I hope he’s around for another 100 years

Have been a regular customer here for years, the best place ever.

I bought everything I needed to start a construction job 50 years ago, great place.

Love that you narrated this one instead of music. Great job.

Love Charlie's! Steve is the man when I was first starting off my lawn care business he would always give me student discounts on already discounted tools. Good guy, good business, and a great place to be!

I have lived in Denver for 25 years and I’m a tool nut. I didn’t know about this place. I’m going next week! Thanks for posting!

In about 1967 or so I had a long layover at the old airport in Denver and had met a Denver veteran coming back from Vietnam and being in the military myself at that time he invited me to go into town with him and he took me there. I was amazed but I never had a chance to go back. Thanks for sharing this video.

I sold my house near there in 2007. I took a truckload of tools I used to work on the house. I was paid more fairly than I expected.

This is exactly the kind of place I note down in my Google maps "want to go" list so that of I'm ever in the area I can stop by. It's full of secondhand shops, niche museums, electronics stores, and retro electronics resellers

My grandfather owned a roofing company in Denver and I'm sure he started bringing me into Charlie's as a toddler. I worked with him as a teenager and we went in often. It's absolutely delightful to see Steve is still running this the same way his grandpa did. The shop hasn't changed a bit from my 60 year old memory. I hope to stop in next time I'm visiting Colorado.

I lived in Denver and got to know about the store through family. I have bought tools there for over 30 years. Harold was a real character, wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. I have retired and moved to Nebraska, but still visit Denver a lot. If I am looking for a tool, I head down there when in town. My wife and sister-in-law still take Steve’s mom out to lunch. She celebrated her 100th birthday last year and has more energy than most young people today. I just used a radial arm saw that I got at Charlie’s today. I have bought everything from hand tools all the way up to a snowblower. It is truly a unique store.

Excellent video! If I ever get there, I’ll need a truck and a search party to pull me out. 😊

I'd have to park my RV in front of that store! I'd be there for days! Heaven on earth for the working guy!!

I am a tool guy; love my tools; and I enjoyed your walk thru and history lesson of "Charlie's 2nd Hand Tool Store" in Denver, Colorado! If I ever find myself in Colorado; I will be sure to stop by Charlie's! Well done, Sir!

Wow what an incredible place so ashamed I’ve lived in Denver all my life and have never been there but definitely going to make it a point to visit there now. Thanks for sharing

Whenever I go into an antique store I always look for the tool section, this is just so much better than that

I just sent this to my buddy down it Trinidad Co, we are going for sure!!!!

I really loved that place,I unfortunately moved out of Denver but got a lot of good deals from Steve. Just going through everything was a pleasure, now I have a new place called Lost Creek Machine. Wife’s not happy lol. Thanks for the memories

I’m an aircraft mechanic moving to Denver in 8 months, I’m STOKED to find this place before I buy any more tools!

Thanks for taking us along to visit Charlie's.

I shopped at Charlies for three decades. Never regretted it. I am on the west coast now. It is nice to see Charlies is still there!

If I lived within 500 miles of Denver I would make a regular pilgrimage to that place!!

I went to a place like this it was a huge warehouse with tiny pathways and packed rooms with no thought of organizing. I asked the guy how he was able to find anything, and he said the owner knew where everything was. And indeed he did. I bought a bunch of stuff and as they were loading it all up ,I watched multiple workers ask him if they had this or that ,if they had it he would tell them exactly where it was. Amazing

FANTASTIC VIDEO , Thanks for SHARING.!!

Everything said in this video is spot on. Steve and the rest of the gang are really fun. I stumbled in here after a Google search for used tools while "in the big city" visiting from Montrose. Since this first visit, every single time I visit Denver for any reason I stop in Charlie's unless they are closed. Steve always remembers my wife and I and we always leave with a pile of tools for our house and auto repair shop. This place is not just a place to get tools, it's a full immersive experience and Steve understands, it's not an accident.

I only live 5 hours away and have family in the area too. This place is now on my list of places to visit.

Another great place to check out is Get a Grip and More in Washington NJ. An alladin’s cave of tools, antiques, etc. LOTS of tools, hand and power, some stationary machines. Woodworking, machining, carpentry, welding, automotive-many trades represented. You can spend hours in there-very cool!

Hey I’m from the Suburbs of Denver! I’ll have to check it out!

I saw at least ten things I didn't know I needed until this video.

My dad lives in Denver, will have to stop by here the next time I visit.

Holy Moly!! I wish I was 1000 miles closer. Thanks for the tour!

This reminds me of a store my uncle owned in Valparaiso, Indiana called Fetla’s. He had a lot more than just tools but it was a mad house of variety and interesting items including guns of all types.

Wow! I have probably walked by this place just thinking it was a pawn shop or something. Definitely stopping by as soon as I can. Thanks for the video and find! Will let them know how I came across them.

Amazing, I wish we had these kind of shops in Switzerland. We have second hand shops but usually cannot find tools. People seem to hang on to those. I almost always have to buy new when some older tools are such good quality and unique

Looks like heaven…thanks for the video!

Beautiful place! I have never seen such a big tool box, so big that you can walk in! I definitely will drop by when I am in Denver! Thank you for sharing this video with us!

This is the first I head of this place been living in CO for 15 years now I'll have to check it out it was sad when there was a place in Lakewood that closed up

Awesome Video, just love those type of stores, thank you

Thank you so much for sharing Doc. Happy Easter my friend.

Every time I need to work on something around the house or out in the garage, on the lawnmower etc.. I thank God for the dad that left me so many useful tools.

Great store and great walkthrough ! I haven’t been there in many years, but I am going to make it a priority to get back there!

I would love to walk around and look at everything

I'm a tool fanatic, i wish i could visit.

I have a 1948 Studebaker which has a tapered rear axel which is impossible to remove the rear hubs without a heavy special puller. I found one here. I also filled out several socket sets that I had inherited.

Thanks for the tour

Used to live next to this and it was sooo cool to still see today as so many relis like this have been modernized or completely torn down 😢

Great video, that is my kind of place!

Great video, really interesting stuff.

Great video! Tool shops and hardware stores are always a labor of love from the owners nowadays!

Wow! Next time, I am in Denver I will head in. Thanks for sharing!!!

Fantastic… will have to make a trip to Denver just to see this treasure!

What a great place. Thanks for sharing that 👍

Wow ! That's my kinda place and if I'm ever near Denver I'll certainly stop at Charlie's and check it out. Thanks for showing us all this cool place !

Wow thank you for showing this! I've lived in golden for more than a decade and didn't know about it. I'm going there the next time I need specific individual tools.

Loved this place when I lived in Denver!

That's an awesome shop, love it.

So nice store i like it thank you for the video .❤👍

Just WOW, thanks for sharing, if I ever get back to Denver, I will check it out. Prolly should take a trailer!

Looks like an amazing place!

Great video, thanks!

Very cool, thanks for the look. Those Klein zip bags are super handy !!!!! (I get my punctuation and Sam's Club) 😂

Thanks for the reference. People believe all the old tools were melted down to make war weapons but there's still a lot that survived and I often enjoy the belief of the Samurai that the instrument retains the soul of the one who wields it.

Amesbury Industrial Supply, located in Amesbury, MA. There’s not a lot of words that can describe how amazing that place and staff are.

Very cool, keep it up Doc!

I've been in Denver for 15 years, and this is the first I'm hearing of this place. I'm even familiar with the area. I may head over there today. It's a great day to go buy some tools!

I love stopping by Charlie's!

What a great place! That flexhead Armstrong ratchet was a good one they still have kits for them.

Thank you for the tour. I just told the wife to plan on stopping by when we head out west. I could spend hours in there searching for goodies.

I stumbled on this gem one day and picked up a couple wrenches. This is just around the corner from Coors Field. Great place to visit and fair prices. I remember some funny signs in the store also.

Im about an hour south of this store. Im definitely gonna take the drive up! Thanks for the tip!

Coolest tool shop I’ve ever been to, great video!

I wish I'd live a bit closer... Cheers from Outback Australia...

I love Charlie’s! I have been there a handful of times, always finding something I want.

I just drove past this place the other day, now I will have to check it out! Also, next time you are here check out Denver tool library, they seem cool too

I wish there were more stores like this. I went into a similar shop in Garibaldi, Oregon and got a great deal on a high quality US made 1/2” socket drive; used but in great condition.

I've been there! Found it by chance and had a fun afternoon

I LOVE shops like that!

Thanks for sharing, I live in Denver and didn’t know this place existed.

Heck yeah! I love this place, been going since the early 2000s.

Ooh, that makes me want to rummage! It's been a long time since I spent time in a store like that - shopping online just isn't the same.

I'll be damned. I used to find tools for myself there, when I lived in Denver! Thanks for the memories! 😎

🇬🇧 Oh WOW! What an excellent Emporium, I would love to take a look around in there. Awesome 👍

Excellent review - hope this drives up business there.

I live an hour north of Denver and I had no idea! I AM THERE!

I wish I had known about this store. We used to visit family in the area, that have since moved. It's unlikely I'll get back to the area. I would love to visit this shop.

very cool, I worked downtown forever and never knew it was there!

Oww wow, have I died and gone to heaven , I love this store 😮

Good job love you From Dino Mares Fontana CA

Incredible. Fortunately, I'm along the East Coast, otherwise you have a visual of what my garage would soon look like if I was anywhere close to Charlie's! But talk about being right up my alley - good used tools and low prices! Thanks for sharing and wouldn't it be wonderful if we had more of these old businesses around?

I have bought ball bearing there a bunch of times for my slingshot. Very good store.

Wow what a place!!

Wow, great vid

Hey, you're in my neck of the woods, that's awesome. Although since post-covid Denver is a shadow of its former self but I will have to give this local gem a stroll through

Wow this is a place I have to go!

Only had a small used tool shop like this around me once briefly. Which it was still around, saved so much time than checking flea markets and antique shows every weekend.

I LOVE Charlie’s. I found a brand new, in the original case, original cellophane, and original cardboard, Mitutoyo 6” dial calipers from the 1980s. In perfect shape. I still haven’t even broken them in a few years later. It even came with the original little paperwork and little pin for rotating the dial mechanism. It was $20!!! I also found similar condition Mitutoyo vernier calipers that I use daily. Among a million cool old tools. You just gotta dig a little.

Such a great place I’ve been there and bought tools there.

Incredible