Yardbirds Home Center is a defunct chain of home improvement stores based in Petaluma, 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.
The chain has been purchased by Home Depot, and the stores were closed for remodeling. Two have reopened as Home Depots, while three were closed permanently. Five smaller stores were reopened in Spring 2007 as YardBIRDS, a Home Depot company. But it was announced they too will close.
Late in January 2009 Home Depot announced the closing of all 5 YardBirds Stores along with the entire EXPO division.
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