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Show Simon Frank 6-28 p.6 LF s L s L s L Did you work in any capacity for the store--as a younger child, you went on .. r ' I never worked until I graduated. Oh, I remember that we'd go to the big sales throughout the chain of stores my dad had. And I selivered bills, I mean advertising bills for which I probably got three or four dollars. II How oldwere you then? Oh, I guess between 12,13, 14. I mean, it was before -- see, I don't even remember doingthat in high school so I probably was in grammar school for those chores. What kind of employees didhe have. Did he have jewish employees? l // I don't think we had, did we ever have ajew. I don't htink so. One of the interesting thingsabout that is in our day werarely lost an employee except through death. When they came with us, they came for life. And during the great depression, that they worked for almost nothing, we gave them what we could afford, which was very little, and they stayed with us. And we kept encouraging them, I did at least and then my father that we'd work it out one day. We were quite well to do before the depressioncame along, we lost almost /everything. And/S2eRad a mighty comeback in 1933. And started tamake money again and always have ever since. 11 Go back to beginning, you said he bought brother-in-law business -- could you tell me how he started out, it was probably one store at that time .... develop from there. S 1f From there it moved to Salt Lake and opened the store, one of the first--it was L ~ s L s a junior department store. that we i clled lne Union Cloth~~g on Firt South,just ~t of where the Tracy Loan is right now. Andobr name was on the sidewalk/tlRtil the time--they used to put names on~e sdewalks in those days. And a lot of old, old names that are subsequently gone, of course they've torn it up. Like R ()',y ~ ... I • • • , in San Francisco, they started here and left. But alrnot every one, if he had a store, had his name ... So the name was on the sidewalk right in front of the store. f:"hi"LL Right on the ~ sidewalk. And the name of the £ , JT was The Union Clothing Store. And itwas just from there, he just bought other stores that ecame available. We had, at one time, oh 4 or 5 stores right in Salt Lake, right around the corner f~ the Union. We had three stores at one time. IDne of them called The Wonder. R~fj~-t One of them called The Rae·est. The other I'v even forgotten what the name was. And then we had a store on this side of the street called !he Day and Night ClothesShop.Ad after we came back and started in again, we had the one store at 210 South Main and only the one store, but we, as we t¢~ went along, too, we bought out almost every store m Salt Lake.But we didn't run them. We bought I -lj. . 1/ them out and closed them out. and ~~1N ~~ into this store. How long have you live di n Salt Lake: Just since 74. Oh then vou wouldn't-alot of names you wouldn't even know. And old times stores |
