Throwback Thursday: Pat Farrah’s Radio Days

The virtues of do-it-yourself home improvement projects were celebrated on a local Atlanta radio station with your host Pat Farrah, co founder and executive VP of the Home Depot.

The Dec. 15, 1980 issue of National Home Center News, the forerunner of HBSDealer, told the story under the headline: “Home Depot’s Pat Farrah stars in DIY radio show.”

The weekly call-in show was part of WSB radio’s “Merry-Go-Round” program. 

The story explains: “The show also gives Farrah a platform to introduce new products that are now in the four Home Depot stores. Home Depot spokesman ‘Super Handyman’ Al Carrell also joins Farrah on the show to lend a hand in answering questions.”

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