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Show B.A. BROUGHTON #1 PAGE 5 SG: Before you came into the area, was there another optemetrist at all? BB: No, only part-time. He came from Salt Lake. Made the trip from Salt Lake, and he'd go to Blanding and Monticello. And for a while there was one that came intermittently to Moab, just on a part-time basis. One of them wrecked his car coming down here. In fact, there were two different ones that came preceeding me here, and one of them had a car accident. That made the trip that he had made unprofitable, of course, because he didn't come over on a half a dozen trips and one of those trips, why, he wrecked his car. And he didn't come after that. That was just shortly before I came. Optical work, eye care, back here was done by Dr. Temple, a medical doctor for a couple of years also before I came, I understand. He died about three of four months before I came. He did some good work for the town of Moab. Of course, I had the opportunity see what he had done, and so on several of his patients he did quite a good job. SG: So when you came in, you really didn't have any competition? BB: No, there was actually no competition here in town, but people have always gone out of town for various services and for merchandise and shopping, and still do to a certain extent. |
