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Post by John "Rockin" Reed on Mar 3, 2008 13:44:19 GMT -5
I know I've mentioned said store in many a thread before. Now, I will give you a more detailed description of it. It's full name was The Stambaugh-Thompson Hardware Company We always simply referred to the place as "Stambaugh's" Get this: My brother used to call it "Stam-bomba's" back in the day. The store in my neck of the woods closed its doors in November 11, 1997. In a nutshell, they were very similar to Handy-Andy. Over the years, they had a lot of interesting fans on display. As we approached the 90s, they started stocking Hunter and Encon and phasing out the 80s brands which consisted of Palm-Air/Moss and King of Fans.
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Post by Farah on Mar 4, 2008 0:01:40 GMT -5
Wow that sounds really nice place. What ever happend to the store?
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Post by John "Rockin" Reed on Mar 4, 2008 11:10:41 GMT -5
The whole chain went belly-up in the mid/late-90s since they could not compete with places like Lowe's and Home-Depot. When we got Lowe's in 1996, good old Stambaugh's didn't stand a chance. As I recall, I was in 9th grade when they announced they would be closing their doors, and I regret not getting any fans from them while drastically reduced.
I did visit a Stambaugh's in Boardman, OH in 1996, and it had a phenomenal ceiling fan display with lots of Hunters.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2008 13:11:18 GMT -5
All of our old hardware stores are still around, including the one Home Depot came and opened RIGHT NEXT TO IT. When people realize they couldnt find anything at Home Depot, they go next door.
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Post by tonyt on Oct 26, 2010 22:59:05 GMT -5
no stores have fan displays any more  or not much |
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Post by Rick M. on Oct 29, 2010 17:00:21 GMT -5
no stores have fan displays any more or not much I know! Other than Home Depot, Lowe's, and Menards, fan displays seem to be a thing of the past. |
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Post by Cole S. on Oct 29, 2010 21:08:32 GMT -5
no stores have fan displays any more or not much I know! Other than Home Depot, Lowe's, and Menards, fan displays seem to be a thing of the past. That's a very sad thing indeed. A local subsidiary of Ace Hardware still has (or had last time I was there) a display with Westinghouses and Hunters. |
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Post by tonyt on Oct 30, 2010 15:09:34 GMT -5
walmart did had porable fan display as of couple years ago but not any more, homedepot porable fan display is just like few fans 1 lakso one powermax, etc nothing to get all jiddy about
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Post by tonyt on Oct 30, 2010 15:10:31 GMT -5
prob becausd it costs the stores much money to have fan displays, even though i like to test out the fan to see if i has moddng potienal, i like to see watts/power beforei buy it
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or not much
