DISCUSS! in pelham nh there use to be one then converved to true value in 1995?And my bodys dad works there and says somtimes some walks up with somthing with a servistar price tag on it
Can you tell I don't visit here often? If I have my facts straight, Servistar started out as American Hardware. The new name must have come along in the late 70s or early 80s. They merged with True Value and switched over all the names. True Value is sort of a co-op, owned by all the independent stores.
One of the oldest ones around home closed this year. They still had some American Hardware signage, and merchandise.
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Can you tell I don't visit here often? If I have my facts straight, Servistar started out as American Hardware. The new name must have come along in the late 70s or early 80s. They merged with True Value and switched over all the names. True Value is sort of a co-op, owned by all the independent stores.
One of the oldest ones around home closed this year. They still had some American Hardware signage, and merchandise.
True Value merged with Servistar and Coast to Coast Hardware.
Here's an example of a ServiStar sign
There's still a few ServiStar signs hanging around:
https://retail247.blogspot.com/2022/09/whats-left-of-servistar.html
As Retail Fan+ said ServiStar and Coast-to-Coast merged with True Value around twenty years ago.
ServiStar was based in Butler, Pennsylvania about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. Interestingly I found a hardware store in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bellevue that still goes by the name Bellevue ServiStar Hardware.
Coast-to-Coast is of course enshrined in celluloid history as John Belushi climbs past their sign at the end of Animal House.
Here's a bunch of miscellaneous ServiStar photos that I've found on Google
None of these photos are mine
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Here's some more photos
(Again none of these are mine)
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The ServiStar logo was seen in the book "Logobook" by Ludovic Houplain
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Even more photos (not mine)
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These 2 stores were in South Africa (from an archive of ServiStar's South African website)
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Here's a photo of the headquarters sign, which still shows the original name of the company
Quote from: Retail_247 on September 04, 2022, 06:17:09 PMThere's still a few ServiStar signs hanging around:
https://retail247.blogspot.com/2022/09/whats-left-of-servistar.html
It's also worth mentioning that I still update this post every once and a while as I'm still finding locatons that use the original ServiStar signage
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Here's a photo I found on Worth Point (an Ebay archive website), apparently it was used by True Value...?
Does anybody know the context for this? Did employees have to wear this pin during the ServiStar-to-True Value transition?