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About
Name
  • Retzler True Value Hardware
Retail
  • Building Material / Garden Equipment and Supplies
Trading names
  • Retzler Hardware Retzler's
Services
  • Hardware Store
Facts
Founded
  • 1958
    Wooster,Ohio
Dissolved
  • 2003
Related
Key Persons
Location
    • 124 N. Walnut St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
    • 132 N. Walnut St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio

Company name

Location

Quick Facts

  • 1950 - Retzler's family purchased "Wayne Hardware and Supply Company" [1]
  • 1963 - store renamed "Retzler's True Value Hardware" [2]
  • 2003 - Joseph L. Retzler, President from 1963-2003 when he retired [3]
  • 2003 - July 23, sold to Michael Tignor who opened Tignor's Hardware Store

Gallery

Invoice from Retzler Hardware dated 1969.
Receipt from Retzler Hardware dated 1969.

Newspaper articles

  • May 16, 1964: "Red Cross Buys Former Retzler Store Building" by Unknown Author, The Daily Record, p..
  • March 24, 1995: "Joseph L. Retzler" by Unknown Author, The Daily Record, p..File:JoeRetzlerObituarypic.PNG
  1. "Joseph L. Retzler" profile on Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce" website
  2. "Joseph L. Retzler" profile on Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce" website
  3. "Joseph L. Retzler" profile on Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce" website