Pacific Ace Hardware

More than a century ago, before Lake Berryessa came into existence, a man by the name of William W.D. McKenzie headed Cook, McKenzie, & Son with his son Albert Bruz McKenzie in Monticello, California. When Monticello citizens were told to make way for the Monticello Dam and Lake Berryessa, W.D. retired, and Bruz and his son Albert Jr. Sandy McKenzie took over. The two McKenzies bought an already existing hardware store in Vacaville in 1957 called Pacific Hardware, and Bruz and Sandy relocated to that location. When the store got too busy, Sandy invited his cousin James Jim McKenzie to come help out and be his partner. Just out of the Marine Corp., Jim had been driving through town when Sandy stopped him.After graduating from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo in 1980, Sandys son David McKenzie came to help out at the store and never left. Today, David and his cousin Scott McKenzie, son of Jim, run the store and are well known for their complementing personalities.