In 1990, Dan and Wanda Gamble founded Gamble and Sons Discount Furniture. They opened their first store in a tiny 600 square foot building in historic Downtown Manila, AR. From the beginning, their success has been built by service after the sale. In 1996, after years of success, we updated to a new, larger building on Highway 18 in Manila. We also decided to change the name to Gamble Home Furnishings to reflect the new creative direction in which our store was heading.
Tragedy struck in 1998, when the store was wiped out by a tornado that swept through the area. The damage forced us to completely shut down. However, with unyielding determination, we were able to rebuild it from the ground up, and made it bigger and better than before!
In February of 2000, we added American Rent to Own to our family of business to diversify the range of service offered by Gambles. In October of 2009, still wanting to grow, we opened Weekends by Gamble Home Furnishings in Jonesboro. It didn't take long to realize that business was too good to only be open 3 days a week, so we changed our name, started staying open 7 days a week to meet the demands of our customers, and Gamble Home Furnishings in Jonesboro was open for Business.
In 2010, we partnered up with America's Mattress for all of our customer's needs in mattresses, lift beds and pillows, including the iComfort lineup. In November 2013, we took another step forward by opening a store in Paragould. At first it was called Outlet and Co. , but by January of 2015, we had changed the name to Gamble Home Express and updated the layout to match the other two locations. We opened our Clearance Center in Jonesboro in mid 2015, where we buy dealer cancellations, factory closeouts, bankrupt stock and factory overruns and sell them to customers for 30-70% off every day!
In the Summer of 2016, we expanded once more, adding a 3500 square foot location at the Mall at Turtle Creek in Jonesboro! We were wanting to give people a more centralized location to see our showcase of amazing furniture, and this space worked perfectly! We are extremely excited about the growth of our business, and hope to continue to see growth in the future!
We now offer over 100K square foot of showroom floor between our 3 locations. Come by any of our stores and let us help you get the furniture that you have always wanted!