John Day Hardware — Local services in John Day

Both a throwback to the past, when local hardware stores knew nearly everything about anything, and stocked the material and equipment to fix it, and a harbinger of the future, when Amazon-sourced garbage fills your mailbox, this place appears to have the pulse. Stuck in Central Oregon, with a leaking bathroom faucet in the RV, where could I find the items I needed? This was the place, with the owners who could quickly find the right fix. And do it less expensively than the big box stores!! The latter is important! I could still buy the individual item I needed, rather than the entire assembly that Lowe’s or Home Depot now stocks, at a third of the price. I am both humbled by the knowledge of the staff, and pleased that such establishments still exist. They remind me of the competent shopkeepers of my youth, and the sturdy yeoman whose service to the community deserve our ongoing...

We were just passing through town for an event and was just walking out of the brewery after an amazing dinner and needed some duct tape. Just happened to say out loud that I needed a hardware store and what I can only assume was the owner or manager jumped up from dinner with his family and said he'd go unlock the store for whatever we needed. ...

I loved the True Value store in John Day Oregon. I went there with my parents to visit my grandparents who are both in their mid nineties. I loved the time I had to spend in John Day Oregon so very much, with a trip to True Value...