Tommy Van Scoy (March 22, 1920 – June 9, 2005) was the owner of a chain of diamond jewelry stores along in New England and the Mid-Atlantic States.
Young Van Scoy graduated from Coughlin High School and made money as a newspaper boy and as a shoeshiner.
[2] After returning home from the military in 1945, he rented a second floor retail space in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and opened his first jewelry store.
He also sponsored a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race known as the Van Scoy Diamond Mine 500 (now known as the Pocono 400).
Through franchising, Van Scoy lent his name to forty additional stores in the northeastern United States including shops in Scranton, Pennsylvania; Binghamton, New York; Hartford, Connecticut; and West Springfield, Massachusetts "When I walk into a town, I don’t have to depend on luck," Van Scoy once said.