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Show Simon Frank 6-29 p.26 won't do that. We!ll fight this thing through and someday it's going to change and ,\ ... we'll make it. And the next day, he,c, ome~down, and he said, ~ell, we'll put in dollar shirts and ten dollar suits,-- the inactivity was so bad, you know, it just drove him crazy. Inthe store all day ~1-._ .. , ?~ you our employees werereall' S -= J so nothing. And .a& I kept coming. We'd • long without a customer. I told t=h i 1 sa r e tl ; g u p 3,. practically wo111 /W,t; do it. We, change .t:>ur policy only to the extent of the firms with whmm we did business change their policy, that is the quality and so on and so forth. And lo and behold we made . it.thank goodness, through the cooperation of H" · ~ , who could have closed us out at any time. ~ut we-hBe- who bad a great regard for my father and subsequently andi'm sure at the same time realising that I was there to back • him upAfor the future particmlarly. They worked with us and we owed them an awful lot of money. But they stood by us and we pulled through. And obviously we-mBee-~~.when you make it, you're quite happy at where you ~od about it. L SO your dad must have been about 60--in his 60s at the time? s LEt's see ••. He was 80 in 53 when he died so A3 from 80 43 f£~111 5 a to 2€b= SO he was ~,yes,at that time. B&IDY Having worked all of his life andhe was very successful. jnd he was quite affluent before the so called crash. And as I say looking ahead at this age, .fo /",.~ eveyrthing that's not much fun. And not any fun as a matter of fact. And so it was very gratifying to know that .;;... ;.J1 we did the right thing ..., hold" out. L Wer~our bros. as enthusiastic BeeHe-yeuas you about the business, optimistic? S Gosh, I don't know. /./t... ~ t14..LL ~ H.... busines together, you ~ow, anJw e were very close socially, bnd my older brother,particularly, we ~~..> went in the same group. And we were very close all ·l! •~Y - Even when he used to run away from home,wheni was just a child, he was 17 I was 10. And he ~t into the army at 17J but even ~ ~ ...r~~ very close. ~W1 And a was a very good ~personable I guy. L This was Gary. s Yes. And loads of-- and occupied a wonderful position here of personnel and customers and all. His title was credit manager but he was really more than.that• And he made a big contribution to the welfare of the store with loads andloads of people and everybody liked him very much.And my other brother was much more interested in sports. And working didn't appeal to him too much and be was -acted really as a salemanJprimarily,but he WBS would only wait on people that he liked . Ae wouldn't bother with anybody else. But he was very popular in the city> ~~ also, · he completelyAlhristian community. that he worked 4nd he married a £hritian girl. But he was very popular in those --particularly interested in athletics, baseball, basketball, and that sort of thing. He .was considered Salt Lake's number one citizen for Baseball. He gotthe privielge of throwing out |
