Thompson True Value Hardware

- Store information for your local hardware store in Marshalltown, IA

Contemplative orchestral music plays. Fade in on close-up of the table’s worn surface. Cut to a 30-something year-old man stands in his garage, looking at an old dining room table. [Voiceover begins] During the depression, my grandfather went hungry around this table. Cut to surface details of the aged wooden tabletop. Cut to man rolling up his sleeves, ready to start work on the project. He pours stripper into a metal pail and paints it onto the top. [Voiceover continues] Before leaving for Vietnam, my uncle ate one of his last meals in America around this table. Man begins to scrape off the tabletop’s old finish. Man sands the tabletop. [Voiceover continues] This table has played host to everything from Christmas dinners to Grandma's bridge tournaments, to arguments about politics and sports. Man blows dust off the tabletop, then continues sanding. [Voiceover continues] This table has had fists pounded on it, pumpkins carved on it, and babies spit up on it. Man starts applying new coat of varnish. [Voiceover continues] Four generations of children have had to sit at this table until they ate all their vegetables, one of them just last week. Man knocks twice on the tabletop. Proud of his completed project, he leans against his workbench to admire it. [Voiceover continues] This table has a story. This table is a story, and the story doesn't end anytime soon. Cut to the True Value logo. Cut to the True Value Locally Owned, Locally Strong logo. End video.