Yardbirds Home Center

Yardbirds Home Center
Company type	Private
Industry	Retail
Founded	1975
Founder	John Morrison Headley
Defunct	April 2009
Fate	Liquidated by Home Depot
Headquarters	Santa Rosa, California
Products	plumbing fixtures; tools; hardware; garden supplies & plants;

Yardbirds Home Center is a defunct chain of home improvement stores founded by John Morrison Headley in 1975 and based in Santa Rosa, California, United States. Their trademark colors were yellow and white. Their mascot was a white buzzard with yellow overalls. These stores were not affiliated with the Yard Birds stores based out of Chehalis, Washington that used a black bird with a yellow beak as its mascot.

Yardbirds had stores throughout the Bay Area in Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Fairfield, Concord, Martinez, San Rafael, Vacaville, San Pablo, Vallejo, Alamo and Rohnert Park.

The chain was purchased by Home Depot in 2005 and the stores were closed for remodeling.^[1] Two reopened as Home Depots, while three were closed permanently. Five smaller stores were reopened in Spring 2007 as YardBIRDS, a Home Depot company, but have since closed.^[2]

Late in January 2009 Home Depot announced the closing of all 5 YardBirds Stores along with the entire EXPO division.

John Morrison Headley, founder of Yardbirds, died in 2012.^[3]

References

^ Home Depot acquired Yardbirds
^ Home Depot to close Yardbirds, Expo and Design Center stores; liquidation sales start Tuesday, Mercury News, Matt Krupnick, January 26, 2009
^ Digitale, Robert (February 22, 2012). "Founder of Yardbirds home improvement chain dies at 77". The Press Democrat.

[ajc-1] Home Depot acquired Yardbirds

[mercurynews-2] Home Depot to close Yardbirds, Expo and Design Center stores; liquidation sales start Tuesday, Mercury News, Matt Krupnick, January 26, 2009

[3] Digitale, Robert (February 22, 2012). "Founder of Yardbirds home improvement chain dies at 77". The Press Democrat.

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