The Broadbent Family: 135 Years of Lehi Legacy & Community Roots
Full Conversation Transcript
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welcome to roots and branches of Lehi the podcast where we get to know the faces stories and lives that make up our
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community I'm Ryan Harding and I started this podcast as a way for us all to connect with the people we live
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alongside growing up in a small town I learned that connections go beyond blood they're built through shared experiences
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friendships and the moments we celebrate together each week we'll sit down with someone new from Lehi to share their
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unique story their passions and what they love most about living here so whether you've been here for years or
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just arrived join us as we deepen Our Roots and reach out to our branches one
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story at a
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time welcome Rebecca and and and Betty to the podcast here where we're going to
Meet the Broadbent Family
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talk about the Broadbent family and and how you had a store here in Lehi and and
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now it's a police station right it's changed a little bit changed so tell me let's talk about it
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before it was a a police station but tell me some of your earliest memories and this would be for both of you but
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you know tell me some of your earliest memories of this store for me you we grew up in the store because it was a it
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was family it wasn't so much of like a a job like outside of the house it was
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that was a second home for us if you needed to find anybody they were always
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at the store they were always at the store and it was just a constant it was
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not thought of I didn't think of it as a place of work it was just part of our I grew up there as a toddler and a little
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girl and the family was all involved and so yeah everyone was always there and
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what kind of store was it what what were you selling there everything everything okay quite quite legitimately it it was
The Origins of Broadbent Store
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a general store in every respect and and it evolved over the years that I was
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working there just because of the times changing and the needs of the general
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Community but the original founder he came across from England with
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the Mormons and like he had been converted and and he came into the
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country and then joined a a hand card company and he and his wife came across
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with I don't remember which hand cart it's in the it's in the notes yeah but they came across with the handcarts and
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he they were really devout converts to the LDS church and and Brigham Young
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assigned him when he came into the valley he said I want you to go down to the next Valley and
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establish basically a store for resources for the settlements there wow and and by trade he was a Watchman maker
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and so his original I mean they they they struggled initially they he worked out of a wagon
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initially because they didn't even have a home and they lived in kind of a mud hut yeah a Dugout yeah it was a Dugout
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like that's they didn't have a a home like a house so to speak to the the old
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journals we have it was they talked about like the mud dripping oh wow just like with rain and stuff yeah getting
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okay yeah and and he would go around the territory and gather he he I don't know this makes
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no sense in today's world but he would gather up watches and clocks that were that needed repair in the fall and
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repair them over the winter and then deliver them in the spring so I guess interested didn't know they need to know
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the time in the winter I guess it seems it seems like what what did they do in the meantime but I'm sure he didn't take
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everything and then through a series of advents it transitioned into they built
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they actually I believe the original property they purchased was from Porter Rockwell okay they purchased property
Life and Evolution of the Store
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that they farmed from Porter Rockwell and then that grew into so his wife
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Sarah Dixon so that's these this is the this is the founders right there but
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they his wife she was a seamstress not by trade but just just because everyone
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was back then and she ordered and purchased a a riveting machine that
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would put rivets into clothing and so the local Miners and Farmers she would
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make coveralls out of denim and rivet the the seams so that they would
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withhold you know over time that was kind of the original start of their the
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business was the this the riveting and the clocks and
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then they also started bringing they built a house with a little it was like
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a two building or a two room building they lived in one side and the other side they put all the clocks and all
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this stuff and they offered people who were traveling through the territory could sleep there wow you know like that
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was another way to make money is on that side of the they they could stay with with that part of the building and
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there's people who would write they had like a journal where people could write in it during their travels more often
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than not people would be like it's we never want to stay here again the clocks are all ticking it's incessant you can't
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sleep because of the ticking of the clocks because he would just have apparently just clocks hung sure all the
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time yeah but then they they started as I as I understand they started bringing
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in supplies for the the community and would would kind of sell or trade those and it
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the the General Store part developed out of need and his son Joseph
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as cuz he was born in I got to remember cuz the Joseph Samuel was
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1863 so they they came across before that and then as Joseph Samuel got
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involved with that the whole family was involved with the the work but he I
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understand kind of pushed the development of a an official store and
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that they established in 1882 okay Broadbent store okay and
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that's kind of how it all but before that it was I mean OB it was still a business it just didn't have a the the
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official name and and location like and that was that was the original spot okay
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they they were there for 135 years there was it 35 or
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37 I thought it would it they tore they tore the store down on its it was a 135
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years if I remember right from 1882 okay and so
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and it grew in fact if you for those people who remembered the old store like
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this is the old old so at first was just like this part yeah and then the brick
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portion was built in 1890 in the mid 1890s I'm going to have
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that okay so that was built and then as the store went on there was another in the ' 50s or 60s they built this the
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front room the 50s in the ' 50s they built another portion on but this old
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store they as I understand it they lived in half of this but when it was just
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this okay but then when they built the brick portion the apartment was up above it MH okay and that they lived in until
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well you live you were there when as a child4 so you actually have memories in
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the store itself living there oh up above yeah okay what was that like well
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it was just a common thing I mean that's what you knew I guess yeah yeah that's all you knew so they they they had
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stories all sorts so he had behind it he had built green houses this is our
Memories and Anecdotes
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grandpa so he had built green houses and he raised mostly carnations did he did
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he raise I mean I know there were other flowers that he would Supply local
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florists and and things with and they have all stories of that like there's a
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barn and that they had kept horses and pigs yeah so they had a good amount of land too then just besides that story
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that block that they set on they owned that whole block the Broadbent family owned that they sold Parcels off
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throughout the years but even when the city bought it almost 3/4 of the block
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broadbend still owned it was you know there were homes on a couple of pieces
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but we owned the there was still the barn the old barn was still there and
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one of the big fields that was like a garden was still there yeah so it it transitioned over the years but yeah it
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was kind of just that was there where they lived and in the mid-50s is when
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they bought the house that was over on second North what was your what was
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second North and where grandma lived yeah what was that address 71 East
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Second North okay and that house is now going to be torn down I guess because the church has bought it okay okay so
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that's going to be gone so that's going to be gone too now okay it's they're they're we're going to be history you're all history that's right well that's why
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we're preserving history right now right that's why we got to have this conversation but so the family then moved there and and the upstairs
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apartment was turned into an office for the store and and storage they rented it
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out oh I didn't realize they rented it out yeah just to couples it was a job going
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up the stairs so the the inside the store it looks like it's two stories but
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there was actually a little jump space in between so you had a flight of I mean
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years when the apartment was there the access was here okay but when I was a
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child you'd go up and there was like a short little office in the middle
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between the two floors there really three floors then it really was three floors As A Firefighter it's a it's a
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nightmare sure sure that's right but then you've climbed another flight of stairs to get to the apartment yeah and
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she had hang the wash the one room was the washroom with the old was from right here okay and
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Daddy had hooked the pulley up and it went clear out over to the barn and Mom
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would hang the clothes on it and wheel it and the one one day she was doing the
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clothes and the line broke and all the clothes went fluttering and the band was
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out prac on the road and they all laughed and thought it was so funny so
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yeah they they it it just it just changed a lot and then the needs like they sold everything when I was a kid
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when I was a child they sold Furniture clothing groceries Hardware they had a
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meat locker okay they sold Fabric and dyed goods and it really was a general
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store like yeah literally had everything and everything kind of had a section
Challenges and Changes
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that you just and so how how long did it serve as a I mean well when did it when did it end when was it you know like no
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longer actually functioning as a store then what year was that do you remember that would have been what year did they tear down two I think was it 17 because
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it was that would have been 135 years yeah I don't know if we have the pictures in here I have them in my phone
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I I sat the day that it was torn down I I didn't really think it was going to be
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like that I actually had brought my daughter up to like a doctor's appointment or something cuz I live down
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by Pac and we pulled in and my mom we were all kind of sitting across the street in the city building parking lot
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and and I was watching the these back hoses they were like eating into the
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store yeah it I felt like they were these just monsters eating the store and I and I would I I I couldn't leave I had
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to sit and watch it all happen as they they they would come in and take out
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pieces of the structure you could see the rooms inside and it was it was
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really hard to watch cuz that was like your whole life just getting eaten away
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and turned into a pile of rubble yeah over a 100 Years of History right there right yeah yeah yeah I bet it was a
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little more emotional than maybe you thought I guess so so emotional I wasn't expected or I didn't expect to feel as
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like moved and just utterly I I sobbed I watching it happen I was like sure I I
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didn't expect that so it was it was hard and and my children my daughter she got
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to be in the store quite quite a lot but all of them had the opportunity to to be there but and they'd run around just
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like it was your house sure I mean well that was the thing is we as
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kids didn't think of it as anything different yeah because we were it was as
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we thought of all the things as just the place we lived and so uh I I remember
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there was jewelry they sold jewelry and as like a a I don't know fourth or fifth
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grade girl I would go in and put on all the all the jewelry I'd be by the and I'd put it all on and I grandma
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would come and scold me cuz I had gotten it all out and I'd have to put all the Rings back and and it was
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mostly costume jewelry like nothing super valuable but as a little girl it
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was just all these things to play dress up with oh my gosh it was amazing and then and they they had I mean we would
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crawl underneath all the things and play hide and seek and and we knew all the
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the hiding places and everything it was as a child growing up it was you know I
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didn't know any different but it was pretty great yeah it was pretty great and I like those stories and tell me any
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other you know stories that you can think of from that that time just that those associations with that building
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and you know well I I can tell you so John my grandpa that would be my mom's
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dad he was a he was just a very like
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civic-minded businessman involved in so many aspects of the community like he
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was fire chief for a while and he he was it the the business portion for him was
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all customer service and and and to be fair I believe that's really what kept
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them through all the years of of all the ups and downs with economies and
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everything is he he believed so much in in customer service that as a child when
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I was I was about 12 years old because you all we all worked at the store you had to work at the store you could not
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work you it was just expected and whether got a broom and a duster a broom and a duster you would dust and and and
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push and sweep and and that was as as soon as you were able you did and then I
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wanted to work the cash register and it's nothing like cash registers today
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it's like the oldfashioned regular cash registers and my grandpa I there was a stool I could get
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out to stand up to be able to reach the cash register and he would before you were allowed to to touch the money he
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would run you through like like a accounting change yes it was he he had
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to know train program you could count the change and that you could respond appropriately to customers and you
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couldn't just hand it no so he there was a way to do it he would bring you items and you'd bring them all up and then
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he'd give you a $20 bill and if it was like
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$568 then he expected you to count back to them up to $20 okay every time there
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was never you never ever didn't count the change back starting at the amount
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that the the sale was okay and so it that was something you had to kind of be
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you had to have your brain around to be able to do yeah and when you could do that and you could show that you knew
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how to like check for all the items on a on a check then you were allowed to to work the register and the other thing he
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was is like I he was like I don't care if the phone is ringing off the hook if
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you've got someone standing in front of you the phone can ring you they are standing there to give you their money
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like you don't you don't answer the phone while you have a customer and I think about that all the time now when
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I'm in a store because I'm like often times you're ignored yes exactly he he was very and he he always wanted the
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customer to leave feeling like they had a good like experience though he always
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gave peanuts or chocolates some of our customers commented I mean they'd be in
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rolling through the store and they say this is better than proac yeah cuz it
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was just what was some of the other comments they would make just that they
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it they felt like it was a place they could relax and enjoy browsing which I
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don't know that that happens as much today in today's world where you just go browse just to yeah just for the sake of
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browsing and and my grandmother his wife she was a she was a Salesman like that
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she could sell I cubes to ask in much she could she could make you feel like
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you needed it sure and and and she could talk to anybody she she could talk to
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anybody and and they were quite a good pair as far as like both sides of the of
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the business and so it was a I mean they it was they had they had some good well
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that's I mean long time I mean to you think about it to run a store because I understand why it maybe started in the
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beginning with you said Brigham Young and there was there was no competition at the beginning right I mean hey this is probably the only shop in town let's
Legacy and Lessons
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start this but like for it to continue on 100 plus years obviously they were doing something right right cuz right
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otherwise I'm sure there was other places well they were married kind of at the height of the depression 1938 1938
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and so so John and Alice got married and he was they were both relatively young
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and that that first year for them because everyone was was on hard times
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and my favorite story cuz I wrote it up for the newspaper one time there was their first Christmas the 1938 Christmas
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so they had just been married and it was their Christmas and they they had
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throughout the day they had made I'm going to I need to reference the story they had made almost $100 okay and I
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don't remember isn't in I I don't remember exactly how much in this about $100 it was almost $100 it was right
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here so they they were it was due to close they had made $98 for the day
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wow and it was that was just a landmark Christmas Eve it was Christmas Eve okay
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and it was time it was closing time but but they talked with each other and they said why don't we just stay open and see
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if we could make a $100 for the day and they decided to stay open a little bit
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later and Clyde dorton was his name he had just gotten off work he a couple of
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houses down this block he had gotten off work and he needed it he needed something for his son to a gift and he
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came in he was so glad they were open and so he looked around and he found a metal school bus with rubber School
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tires with with rubber tires on this metal school bus and it was like a toy
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it was a school bus right yeah big yellow school bus and oh no no no a blue
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metal school bus I'm reading it now sorry we're a little you're good and it was about 18 in long and all the doors
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opened and all the little Windows opened and Clyde said I think I want that how much
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is it and she took the the bus down and it the price tag was $2 and so his sale got him to $100 on
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their first Christmas Eve oh that's awesome and Christmas Eve at that store
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was magical and there's there is just no other way I I have yet to find like it
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was part of it was our staff and our family and just
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yeah it was so great but customers coming in and and everyone was so just
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happy like it was everything everybody was genuine the genuine love for people
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oh gosh Grandpa and that was Grandpa's thing is Grandpa
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John it didn't matter if you were the 12-year-old kid coming in to buy a stick
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candy or if you were a a lady coming in to buy fabric or it didn't matter he he
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was genuinely interested in how was your day and how
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like what can we do for you today and everybody got shipped off with peanuts
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or chocolates or something and he he his thing was is you you want to make sure
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they want to come back and I think like as I talk to people who have good
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memories of the store that's that's what it was more than our merch dice more
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than a lot of the other things it was just the atmosphere yeah the atmosphere that that we we wanted you to come back
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and we wanted you to to feel welcome all the time and Mom would carry on with the
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customer at one if she'd get a hold of your arm even wouldn't let go yeah you you got
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the you got the 10cent tour yeah yeah whether you wanted it or not but it was
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it was a big deal Christmas at the store it was the the the display windows we
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tried to make very nostalgic because as you would walk when I lived here in in
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Lehi one of my favorite things on Christmas Eve night after it was dark and it was to walk and usually it was
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snowing but and just walk past the store because it just felt like you would step
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back in time and everything was quiet and it was so great grandma had a big
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Nativity set oh yeah the the nativity set in the store window was was a thing
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that Drew people every year because her nativity set had been carried through
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generations quite literally like her the original set she had added many pieces
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it was a it was a conglomeration of lots of sets but the the space that it took
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to set it up in the window how big was that window 12 ft by 8 ft maybe I'm
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seeing 15t it was it was and we had platform built to put this n Nativity on
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and she was very haul it all out and haul it all back in the original nativity set was from Germany German
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yeah back in before the war wow yeah that it it was an old set from Germany
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and and then the other pieces were just from all over the world it had the elephant and the camel and all the
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Shepherds and it was a beautiful set the she would set it up and we had we had
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the the story from Matthew printed out really beautifully and and they were
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they were very adamant that that that was Center the Center focus of the of
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the windows of the store because I mean Grandma and Grandpa were both
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very very devout Christians and and and they were strong members of the eldia
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church and and they had I mean that was a that was a family that was brought
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here by the Elias church and even even his my grandpa's dad Joseph Samuel went
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on a mission he in the in the mid what year it was mid90s mid 1890s yeah he
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left this all and went overseas back to England for a mission for the LDS church
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wow and he they would write letters we we have the letters they would write back and forth and which sister was it
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now I got to look SAR no was it no s s one of his sisters so his his this
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this this is the Sam Joseph Samuel this is the patriarch okay so he's he's
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getting very aged in these years he's now gone to England and the sister it
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was was it Geneva oh that wrote the letter so he's in England and she writes a letter that
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says the diptheria is here and we no one will come into the store cuz the baby
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was sick and one of the sisters was sick I think I wish I I wish I was really
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good at remembering all this but he she wrote a letter and just to him to say
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like I hope you know like the store was is going to fall apart and you know our dad's probably going to die the baby's
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probably going to die no one's coming we're not going to be able to eat I'm half sick yeah we're all starving to death yeah and I sent that letter and of
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course it has to go through all the the the ship over the ocean so it's months
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and his response came it was almost 6 months later cuz that's the way it
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worked how long it took and he was like have no fear the lord has assured me everything's going to be fine and it was
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everybody was fine but like the store made it through the dip theia outbreak which was depression World War I and
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World War I yeah which were some hard times yeah and it just they made it
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because they they were the model was more about like what is the community
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need and how can we best provide that and if you Grandpa told me all the time
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if if people weren't able to pay well they all they all they had open tabs for people which we had for years people
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could just buy on credit he also would take exchange for goods like during the Depression he talked about how like
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local farmers would bring eggs in exchange for other things they needed and it was it was very much you had to
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be aware of what the community needed in order to you couldn't just have a model and
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just say that was it it was it had to be fluid and and and adjusting to the needs
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of the community yeah he adapted very well it sounds like for yeah for as long I mean I I make the joke all the time
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that that the store survived everything the wars the depression the outbreaks
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the the epidemics it couldn't survive the internet yeah sure sure like like you
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know it would it would break my heart when people would come in and they would start they would start searching yeah
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for an item to see if they could find it cheaper online and I remember the first
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hint of it was when Walmart came in and we carried we didn't we weren't really concerned cuz we didn't carry a lot of
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the same things sure but we did carry this brand of of embroidery thread this
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sounds so ridiculous but we carried a brand of embroidery thread that we had
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carried forever and at Walmart they were selling
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it cheaper than what the company would sell it to us for wholesale and we would
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ask our rep like why how how is this possible and they were like well Walmart
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agrees that if we give them that price they will buy this huge bulk and so
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they've kind of secured it for them and that's when I remember we took that R we couldn't compete with that we were
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losing money to sell it at that price yeah their buying power was so much greater than yours right yes and and
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that was the biggest difference is I mean I don't think anyone understands that back when I was in even high school
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in the 80s and 90s we would we didn't have a huge storage house like yeah at
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the end of Christmas in January people every year would say are you guys closing our shelves were empty because
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we had we were bringing in new stuff because we had sold it all yeah you only had so much inventory yes and that was
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just the way of the that was the circle of of like business we would bring the
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new things in and sell them and then bring the new things in and sell them and it was never it was never like just
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a constant Supply it was like sometimes we couldn't find things again they were
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gone and they were gone yeah but and the people got to where they loveed to come
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to the store yeah and they dreaded Walmart sure sure which I think part of
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that was just the service well I was going to say it's the people it's the connections right I mean it's that small town you know hey I know who these
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people are I like being with them yeah yeah I think that's I think that's probably the the hardest part is that it
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you know that's that's gone we we do make some I mean that's a interesting point because we do make some trade-offs
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you know I mean you mentioned that fabric you know is cheaper and stuff like that and so hey we all enjoy a better selection of things for a cheaper
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price now right but you know there are some things that are lost in that advancement right you know there's we
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live in a less we don't know people as well as we used to right there's no
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interpersonal exactly like there used to be well like the teller at the bank or something like that we all had to go to the now you know I don't step in a bank
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very often anymore cuz I can deposit checks with my phone or something you know Heavens yeah up until it was what
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year was it that we had to I I helped manage the books for the store
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and it would have been 2005 200 like like this is pretty late in the game but
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we were still using big ledgers that were like the big turn and they were heavy we'd go to the accountant and we
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was like you needed a wheelbarrow to carry the ledgers in and my grandpa I
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did it all by pencil my mom did it too you had to write every
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transaction and and carry the balance forward and it was just these huge
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ledgers and at one point the accountant was like I'm I'm not going to take Ledger I needed digital we got to move
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on Excel have you heard even then Grandpa was like we're not going to go completely digital we're going to do the ledgers and we'll do QuickBooks sure
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sure and that was a nightmare trying to get those two to to J with each other
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and so it was just but we did it all like the old and he had to have
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everything balance to the penny to the penny it was never I mean you'd spend
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four hours finding three pennies where did that money go where is it yep and that was a that was a thing he was every
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he wanted to know where every penny went and he he was so good with his finances
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that in fact well when we would go to market so we would there were markets in La Chicago and Dallas where we would go
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by merchandise for the store and when we would see a new line of merchandise that
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we would like we'd go in and and they usually had to apply for a line of
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credit and and all of the things and Grandpa wanted everything purchased like you didn't we we don't want credit we're
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going to buy it and we'll write a check for it and they they they didn't want that they were like what are you talking
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about a check but that was how Grandpa did for years we had it took a long time for him to even like agree to a credit
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card for the store because it just the way that he he felt and I think there
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was something to it because of what he had been taught by his dad as far as managing your money and
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your business and your life like and he always says that there was a difference
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between want and need sure yeah so yeah it was a it was and he left us kids with
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a lot of responsibility at times as I think back but they'd even go to the
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California Market Mom and Daddy would and leave us kids home to do the store
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and we were still in school high school they trusted you enough though I guess
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yeah which is good though that means you were able to learn responsibility at a younger age yeah so we had to go open
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the store get it all set up and then go to school and then came home and take
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care of it and then Clos it up and start all over it was never yeah you never got
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like time off yeah I mean it was an ordeal to go on a vacation but we had
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really good help we had we did such good employees they they stayed with us for
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years ever and how long did Arlene work there oh 30 years at least and Arlene I
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don't know if Arlene ever took home a paycheck she would she would on her tab
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buy things take things and then you'd settle it at the end of the month with a paycheck and I like I think she just got
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paid in merchandise sure but it's like that was we had oh gosh we had the best employees
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but they were all family to me and it was not like a job cuz everybody all of
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us loved each other there was no bickering no backbiting we just didn't have any of
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that you didn't well when I was in high school cuz they lived at the the house
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just a block away up on second North and I would go up with Grandma and we'd fix
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sandwiches or gosh whatever the food was if it was sou whatever was in the fridge
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yeah whatever we fixed and we fixed it for everybody's lunch and I would take this
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rubber tub with a dish towel over it full of sandwiches and other Foods carry
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it down to the store for everyone to have lunch and that was just the way of the the way it went and and Grandma fed
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every and you ate it I'm sure yeah yeah and she made meatloaf sandwiches lot of
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they were the best that but that was it would be unheard of now I think for an
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owner of a store to just go but that was you just fed everyone and she she would
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have these she'd go as she got older she just would go sit at at the store and on
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the band and greet everyone and and try to you know talk with everyone and and that was she loved that she' snag on
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your arm and walk with you through the whole store so if you were in a hurry got to watch out right
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right take a detour I mean the gosh what else I don't know what else to say well
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so so we can shift gears a little bit so I mean so so obviously the the store is closed right you know but tell me tell
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me obviously this was a part of your lives for so many years for both of you if you're part of your family I mean you
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have a lot of Heritage here and stuff like that how you know what principles from that time what what things that
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you've learned are you still applying to your life now where you're you know you're living a life without the store
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but but the store was only a part of your life right and stuff like that well it taught us to
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do live the way we are okay like to work hard and and live as like think of think
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of more than yourself I think that was the biggest thing and you had in order
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for that business to be successful you had to think of what the community needed and and Grandpa did that in every
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way like he all of his Civic involvement and his his love for the fire department
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and it was all about cultivating and caring for the community that you lived in and and I
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think that is what made them so prominent in the community was because
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people could tell that they they loved this they loved Lehi they loved the whole area
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and which I think is I mean that that I think that's exactly right I mean it as far as if I were you and to remember
Reflecting on Family Values and Hard Work
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those time like because there's so much history there and there's that's a great application into your life now that can
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be applied to whatever you end up doing or whatever your kids grandkids and stuff like that end up doing is hey we
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want to be part of the community we want to serve and and there's there's benefits to that I guess right and and yeah and just loving people I think
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that's what it sounds like he did a lot she did a lot right you know just loving people and stuff but I love that I think
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that's great and then just the the determination of just hard work it was there was never
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I mean I credit my parents and and my grandparents for I've never been in a
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situation where I was like like I've always thought hard work can I can get out of it with hard work yeah and and I
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was never it was never things were never so bad that I couldn't hard work my way out of it and and I think that is really
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credited to that whole lifestyle that we have had and and there was never like oh
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we need to hire this professional it's like we can do that I mean good Heavens
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it was but I mean part of the reason I feel like I am where I'm at is because
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of their influence and I I know I mean I could say like the the cooking like I
Learning Life Skills from Family
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learned to cook not because of any classes but because of my mom and my
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grandmother specifically and it's the whole reason I I because I work as a
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firefighter in another city and the guys are always like they love it when I cook
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and I'm I'm always giving credit to these other women because I'm like that's why I know how to cook but it it
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is it's it's you learned and there was not as a child you weren't it wasn't
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like oh let's make this you know let's cater to this child it was you're going to come along with me while I do my work
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and that's how you learned how to do it appren I guess there was there wasn't
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this idea that we need to create this special separate world
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for a child it was that they were they were going to be with us and be taught
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and be T work not not in a direct fashion but just through this is what we do yeah yeah our family's tradition I
The Importance of Community and Tradition
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mean everything that we the majority I think think of all of the kids grow that
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grew up in this the Broadband family it was it wasn't like bad that you were
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working it was part of the fun and it was part you it was you were given responsibility based on your your skill
40:42
level and so it was almost like a reward when you got given more responsibity it
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doesn't sound like work was you know a chore it was actually like hey yeah let me let me do this and and because work
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is fun and can be good and stuff like that and and it sounds like that's what it was in your it it was really it was
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really great and I mean Grandpa all he had to do back in the when we were
Memories of the Family Store
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really young and we were dusting we would dust they had they had a whole
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canned food section and all the canned food needed to be facing forward and
41:19
lined up on these big long white shelves and we you would wipe you'd have to set everything off and wipe all the shelves
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once a week and then reset it all back on it was this whole process and he would pay they were they were the entire
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length of the grocery room these shelves and for each shelf you got done you got 10 cents so 10 cents a shelf and it took
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gosh what two hours to do a shelf May no maybe an hour I don't know it felt like as a as an eight-year-old it felt like
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eternity I'm sure I'm sure and for 10 cents but for 10 cents but then you
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would also get I don't this is going to date me you got a jell Pudding Pop okay
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do you I don't theyve not been around for years they haven't but it was an ice cream that was made out of Jello pudding
42:06
and in our we he had a big freezer case full of ice creams and and if you got
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your shelf all done and you could take a break with a Jello-O pudding pop and that was enough that was that was a good
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reward reward the 10 cents and a Jello-O pudding pop and yeah it was a it was a
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big deal and you were never overpaid with my merchandise was the like you know it was it really was the even even
Unique Merchandise and Customer Relations
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me like the things CU we would bring in merchandise and and a lot the store
42:38
transitioned over the years from a general store to more of some special
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teak type items so we carried fabric fabric was a big deal with like the quilting community and we carried there
42:52
were a few items of clothing that we maintained because they were dresses that
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weren't really sold anywhere else house dress they called them house dresses Okay do you I mean I don't they they
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like button down so we we carried those we carried baptism dresses for little
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girls and blessing dresses and that was a unique to the community there weren't
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a lot of stores that provided those they were often like Christening gowns or
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kinera type gowns which were not they didn't quite fit because the the Ages
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were different like our Christening gowns had to be tiny cuz in the LDS
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Community you bless a brand new baby and they are 6 months eight months a year
43:39
old and so we would we had one company in New York that would make the dresses
43:45
just for us okay and we didn't sell like and that many that they would just be
43:51
able to supply a ton but they they did it for us and they we had another company CU Grandpa was very much like
43:59
little girls you know we didn't want these little strappy dresses for little girls we wanted something modest and and you
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know wholesome and so we would go to these these markets and all the dresses would have these little and I was like
44:13
well I can't buy those my grandpa was would not he he won't sell them you have to have sleeves they got to have they
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have to have some sort of covering of their shoulder and the one company
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started doing it just for us putting little sleeves on their dresses just for us and we we we would buy we would buy
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in sets of like 12 not like you know 400 dresses we weren't Walmart yeah you
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weren't yeah you didn't have the the pockets and because our that was our first question is what is our minimum War because we we always it was usually
44:45
the minimum that we would buy because it just we didn't have storage for it and we we didn't over extend ourselves
44:51
financially that way so and when we did go to market the company
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rabs they I don't know if they'd tear their
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hair out at times frustrated with us for sure but Nan and I well and my girls
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that went we always knew what we needed and what we wanted and they can we were
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very specific because we had limited space and limited you know we didn't we
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didn't just buy things in huge bulk we looked at everything with a magnifying
45:32
glass and and if they only had photos we were much less likely to buy it we needed to see whatever the product was I
45:40
needed to hold it we wanted to look at it look at the Quality and that was part of the reason people loved
45:49
our merchandises because we were very very and they say where do you find all this yeah well we we took a lot of time
45:56
to find it it sounds like it was it was a lot and then every single item as it came this doesn't happen anymore I know
46:02
it doesn't happen because boxes would come in the shipments of that merchandise we bought and every single
46:10
thing was inspected and if there was a flaw or damage it got returned sure we
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didn't just put boxes on shelves ever it was oh we go the big thing was UPS is
46:24
here so you it to travel through the store UPS just dropped off how many they've dropped 12 packages because that
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meant we had two people at least in the back room opening and inspecting every
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item we didn't we'd never just put it away because there was not we were not
46:43
going to be sold something that or had a had a flaw and often times the you'd
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call the r and be or the company and say like oh we got you know the paint is all wrong or that something's you know and
46:58
they'd be like okay we'll disc credit it back but just keep it cuz they didn't the the hassle of returning was worse
47:05
the cost and and so it was it was a huge process to to go through everything but
47:12
if it had a flaw their grandpa and grandma they were not going to sell it or they were not going to sell it at the
47:19
regular price and so they were very which most of my Christmas decorations
47:24
and the things I took over were things that were FL or broken that's for your here's for your CR because it was
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Grandpa did not want things out on the out on the floor that were not good
47:37
quality well like Tell City yeah when we sold Furniture Grandpa was
47:45
just rock Maple it had to be hardwood it had to be fully wood furniture he was
47:50
not going to have anything that was cheaply put together yeah and there was a company were they Chicago
47:57
was Tel City in Chicago I'm going to get it wrong but they were a company a family-owned company just like us and
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they made hardwood furniture and Grandpa met their patriarch at a at a market and
48:15
he was Allin and so we sold Tell City there were a few companies he would buy
48:21
Riverside and Tel City yeah and I there's a there was a few because they made good but Tel city was was special
48:29
because they were like us they they had a family run business and it was that's
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they they were quality was important and I remember those those shipments had to come on train so it was like it was a
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big long it was a big deal you had to go up to Salt Lake and go pick them up there go to the dock and yeah it was a
48:47
to get the but when till City went out of business I remember feeling like that's like another that there goes
48:54
another one like they're gone and and it's it was heartbreaking but there's a
49:00
there's companies here that Grandpa was like that with like sweet C sweet's candy sweets
49:05
candy he he was their their family's like our our family like Grandpa knew
49:12
what was his name his last name was sweets right I don't know if that was their name but that was their company
49:19
name but they ran it just like a business and they did it just like our business and it was all family and I I
49:26
got to go a couple times and go see all the candy making machines and they have they have like candy making things from
49:32
like the turn of this I shouldn't say the turn of the century the 1800s to the 1900s turn of the century
49:39
and I remember going up there to pick up things from cuz we'd go pick it up in person from Suites and you'd go in their
49:46
office and their office looked just like our office cuz it was covered in calendars and sticky notes and reminders
49:54
and powdered sugar it did have better sugar everywhere and
50:00
startups and oh am I thinking of startups I might be confused is that
50:06
startups candy startup was a family that's the one I'm thinking of sweets I
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think might be too but Grandpa was sweets was in Salt Lake startup was in proo that's the one I'm thinking I'm
50:18
sorry Grandma knew Harry startup Harry startup okay hey
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harry I think we I think I might have t sweets as well cuz but they were all
50:29
very much relatable like Grandpa's big desk was it was a door wasn't it yes it
50:37
was a door on filing cabinets that a big big plate glass big thing of plate glass
50:44
was put on the door and Neath it was T his every note every quote that he
50:51
wanted to remember every it was all he'd lift the glass and put it under there
50:57
and so you could see it all and then when you needed to like like phone number you'd go up and look at the desk
51:03
to make sure every like where everything was yeah it was it was the
51:10
education so yeah it was Grandpa he was he read he did a lot of reading he was a
51:16
very well- read man and they yeah was it was it was good
Transitioning the Store to a Police Station
51:23
with so now that it's a police station they they have put your name on the
51:28
police station right yeah tell me how that you know how that helps you cope
51:33
with I guess the loss of the store but tell me how you feel about the fact that your name and and that that time will
51:39
still live on in some degree I'm just so happy the city bought it had a need for
51:46
it we had a lot of companies come in and want to buy it mhm
51:52
and I I said no I'm not doing that cuz it L I knew there was too much work that
51:59
would go into it to keep it up and so when the city approached us and says
52:06
they wanted it for they were going to develop it and make a big police station I knew then that I say that's great cuz
52:13
we'll have grass and flowers and flag and it'll always be maintained yeah no
52:21
it's a very beautiful building actually they did a good job with it they they have that there's a in the broadband
52:26
room there's a whole display of items and and it has old Nativity and
52:34
MH has a lot of different things and and really that I know like there's some of
52:40
those things that I people were like why didn't you want to keep that and why didn't you and really a lot of that
52:47
really belonged to the community at that point it it belonged to the city not
52:53
because the the my grandparents gave it to them but because it was that was the
53:00
reason they they displayed it and and they it would be wrong to have it just be in someone's house now well so many
53:07
more people get to enjoy it then right and if that and that I think that's the love I mean that's what I'm hearing from you is that they loved the community and
53:13
that's what kept them in business for so long and so it to your point it makes sense that that would then be part of
53:20
the community because that's that's that's what they did and it's not necess it wasn't it was a family business but
53:26
it was a family serving the community so you wouldn't want to just keep it for the family cuz Hey the family was always in service of the community is what I'm
53:33
hearing I have 100% agree I I feel like and even the even the masonry because
53:39
they they maintained some of the masonry in that room and I I feel like people
Preserving Family and Community Heritage
53:45
don't know the background there either because uh it was Grandpa's bre Andrew
53:52
field was he the brother oh I'm going to have to look so he married marri the
53:57
sister so he was a brother-in-law yeah so of Joseph Samuel Bradman the brick
54:04
portion of the store this portion y that there's the masonry from that is still
54:11
there's still some of it in that broadband's room okay that was erected
54:16
by his Joseph Samuel broadband's brother-in-law Andrew Feld and he was a
54:24
Mason and that he did the old fifth W church for those people who might
54:29
remember that he also was one of the prominent Masons on what's now the
54:35
Center Street Temple in Provo but the it was Tabernacle Tabernacle at the time
54:41
and he he also traveled building sugar beat factories wasn't it no that was Granddad Davis that was Granddad Davis
54:48
see if I didn't have her here that's why but he was Andrew Fiel was a very
54:57
prominent Mason yeah that did a lot of work for the LDS church yeah and he was
55:03
uh State patriarch forever we actually have both Grandma and Grandpa's
55:09
patriarchal blessings were they both done by Andrew field I thought so both n
55:15
and David by the time I got old enough had I think this is a yep that's his
55:22
signature oh wow that's cool so those are both of the but he was he was a a
55:27
very prominent member oh yeah of of this area as well
55:33
but like that Mason that masonry that like that's a that's a skill that's not
55:39
and there's very very few people that understand the value in that to to erect
55:45
a building that could that was built out of bricks not a frame and then bricks but like built out of brick just the
55:51
exterior the part yeah not just a facade and and have it last 135 years
55:56
like that's a big deal I mean the Tabernacle I mean that survived a fire yes it did yes it did and it's still
56:04
standing and so I think like that speaks to the whole family just building this
56:11
community kind of and and so that's part of I don't even think that people realize that when they see that masonry
56:17
so you're saying inside the room itself the wall that is is built out of they have don't they have a brick wall that's
56:23
out of the the masonry from the store okay okay so the brick wall in that room
56:29
I think it was rebuilt so it's not like the original wall but it's us the Bri they took the bricks and then they put
56:35
them up to rebuild it so so it's not like the original wall but that part of the reason that the store we were at
56:43
that point of of selling is because it had been grandfathered in over all these
56:49
years for fire you know code and everything and people were like couldn't
56:54
you get it protected by the historic IAL Society but we had to constantly update the building we would adapt areas to
57:03
what we wanted them to do and they all had to be handicap accessible CU you're a business and and so when you've
57:10
modified the building it the historical society is like no yeah we ruined that a long time right to stay in business you
57:17
had to but then the masonry was to the point where it wasn't in the event of a
57:25
catastroph Ric earthquake or fire it wouldn't be safe and and to the cost of
57:32
trying to rebuild would have just demolished the whole I and the insurance
57:40
well that the store had all I mean they they had the only overhead they had was their their utilities sure CU they they
57:47
they owned all their merchandise they owned and everything and the there's no mortgage on the bill so to think about
57:54
spending a few million dollars to rebuild the store didn't fit with what the store was about anyway cuz we
58:01
couldn't keep things the way it was and and so at that point even when other businesses were like well it would have
58:07
ruined it well because the whole point yeah it that's your feel that's your what you've built it on and so that
Concluding Thoughts on Heritage and Community
58:13
makes sense no and that and and I guess there's a lesson there too I mean there's a time and a season for
58:18
everything right and that filled a role a big role for for 100 plus years yeah
58:25
yeah but things do change everything's everything progresses and changes and
58:31
whether we think it's for the good or not it it it's the way of our lives and we have to just we have to adapt with
58:38
the way things go and and I know like I just I treasure the fact that I got to
58:43
be part of it yes but I like I'm sure everyone had their upbringing that was
58:48
great when people come and talk to me and tell me their memories of being at the store it's so it's so great because
58:56
I just I remember that and MH yeah no it's a special place for you yeah well
59:01
it touched a lot of lies yeah yeah which is why I'm glad it's still part of the
59:07
community I'm you know it's in a different shape you know now it's it's I'm so happy it's what it is I mean we
59:15
were getting to the point we couldn't do it the the city has done a beautiful job
59:21
at and then a lot of our artifacts we donated to the music Museum and so the
59:27
museum has a whole display of things from the store cuz over the years the
59:33
store had all sorts of things and and we we had things as we went through the the
59:38
the task of getting that store ready to be torn down was overwhelming true and
59:45
we found things that we were like we don't know what to do with this like we don't know if we should we can't really
59:50
keep it there were some things that we thought would sell I mean we kept part
59:56
but that was more than anybody needed so we'd sell and Dixie and Howard they were
1:00:03
probably our longest standing customers they came well they came they're in PG
1:00:10
and they came over three different times in the day yeah they' say oh we got home
1:00:17
thinking about this and we think we need it and off they come back over and then all of a sudden they'd be back again I
1:00:24
mean we just laughed had so much fun with everybody so yeah they we there a
1:00:31
lot of a lot of people purchased things that were just memorabilia to take home because we were like we don't know what
1:00:37
else to do with it and and then it got to the point we were going through boxes
1:00:43
and cabinets full of things that hadn't been opened in 50 years and and I we
1:00:50
were we were we found we found the $5 bill from was it 1930
1:00:56
before I we found we found a lot of old things that just were just tucked away and one of them we had all these boxes
1:01:03
so the store used to they sold LDS scriptures and they had the press that
1:01:09
they could put your name on it with foil with gold foil and the the type set for
1:01:15
that came in these little wood boxes that were about this big and so they had
1:01:21
compartment little tiny type set that you'd have to set by hand and when you
1:01:26
took all of that out the box was just a wooden empty box and I bet we had 20 of
1:01:31
those boxes sitting up there and they were all just full of receipts and
1:01:36
things that were not really necessary and we were kind of getting and I I picked one up and I was like I got to go
1:01:42
through everything because I don't want to miss something and I opened one and there's these other little boxes and I open them and these are pre- civil war
1:01:50
tin type photos of the my grandmother's family wow and I'm like these probably
1:01:57
shouldn't be in a box here I don't know what we should do with these but not this take care of these
1:02:04
and so but it was like that was the that was what we did we would go through and it was just no stone and turn everything
1:02:11
but then you'd find something you were like oh my goodness like this has been hiding here this whole time and it's
1:02:17
just all the years that that was that was just built up yeah and so there was
1:02:23
a lot of there was a lot of that and and it's kind of a it was cathartic to be able to go through everything to get
1:02:30
ready well I just wanted to make sure we had gone through everything and didn't
1:02:38
over yes and and missed something and the furnace room so there was a the store was heated Mo the majority of the
1:02:45
store was heated with a boiler and it was in our back room which had been converted cuz over the years it had been
1:02:52
a meat locker and other things but excuse me the the bo spoiler was down about three or four steps into this
1:02:59
little concrete cement space that had a couple of shelves of course for storage
1:03:04
cuz we didn't have any storage but it was very warm always in that room and
1:03:11
Grandpa he'd go out and shovel snow and then he'd go sit on a lawn chair in that
1:03:17
room if you if you couldn't find him in the winter it's where he was he was in he was in the furn room in the furnace
1:03:23
room warming up through all that snow cuz if you were cold that was the place to get warm warm it was a cozy warm yeah
1:03:32
grandpa had a little and they had the radiators upstairs on the third floor
1:03:38
for the Heat and daddy would be downstairs tending the store and mom was
1:03:44
upstairs with the kids y but when he'd get busy he'd take the yard stick and
1:03:50
tap on the pipe to relay the message I need some help
1:03:57
so yeah the the I people don't know what radiators are like we'd have to go vent
1:04:03
them and let them hiss every morning you'd go around and vent all the radiators so that the the heat would
1:04:08
start yeah it was that was a big deal you could just feel the heat come out yeah and the upstairs maintained the
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heat really well so it was it was good it was good but every kid I think every kid in the family worked there at some
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point oh yeah there was kind of a I think Grandpa wanted to feel like he did
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his service by teaching the kids how to work yeah yeah so which it sounds like
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he did I think so this has been great you know to learn I I've learned a lot I didn't know a lot of this stuff so
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thanks for letting me be a silent participant in this I guess a little bit right but tell me you know is there
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anything before I get to I have a concluding question for you I guess but any any other things that we haven't
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covered that you wanted to cover I mean grandma Grandma had fashion shows at
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this at the store and we did for years while I was part of the fire department
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we were one of the main supporters of their sub for Santa program and through
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we did this whole for years we did that the tree raffle and and they every year
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in the Lehi miniature parade we put a float in pretty much yeah and and it was
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at the the miniature parade the wards could do the floats as well but it was also a time that businesses could kind
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of atise sure and so it's it's kind of evolved past that yeah and
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I I don't I don't know what else I think that's it's there's just so much and
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you've hit a lot of it yeah no this has been great like I said so let me ask you this concluding question then so this so
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this is roots and branches is the name of the podcast right of Lehi and so we've been learning about your roots
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right and so I guess you could argue you're the branches of you know of these roots right you've you've been able to do it but so from on a personal level
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how has you know I guess going back and learning about these things and knowing
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these things having that history having that Heritage how is that affecting your life now and the way that you live your
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life and different things like that what you know what's the what's the application to your eles now from with
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with this this Rich Heritage that you have you have a rich Heritage uh a long history here in Lehi you've helped shape
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this community how is that affecting your life now well I think it affected how we raised our own families what we
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taught them and what we expected of them of the kids and I don't know I just
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think everything that we ended up doing was a lesson that we learned I don't
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yeah I think I I mean for for me I I see
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it in like in everything that I do and I
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as far as just and I see it daily when we go to the drive up Windows and they
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hand you their your change back you're like you're doing it wrong I taught my kids how to count change I did do that I
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taught them how to count change but I think like all of it just the Ingenuity and the determination and like the
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spirit of of not not letting things stop you or get you down and oh Grandma Alice
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she there was nothing she couldn't do or wouldn't do well and she did she she was
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just good at everything I felt like and I mean everybody else would say well I
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can't do that I don't know how and she'd find a way and she could she she'd find a way I and Grandpa as as
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incredibly influential as he was he was the most soft
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spoken humble just utterly like example
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of of a Christian that you could find I think he
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Grandma good hell John she my grandmother had she had a mouth like a
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sailor sometimes but she was she was she had a lot of
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spunk and she could do like we said she could do anything she would accompl
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nothing nothing's and I think that's impossible that's I think I with anybody
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who it lives in Lehi if they can they can remember that like where Lehi
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started and where it came like came from that's a big deal I I love Lehi so much
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I I mean I grew up here but also I just know so much about the history here
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because of that family yeah and well in the story just were associated with it
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all the time on what's going on down on Main Street or I mean we weren't on the
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main track but whatever was going on we were always involved a part of it yeah I
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I feel like people probably feel like this about wherever they grew up but I I
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definitely I love I love the community here and I love all of the and we know
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so many of the people yeah it's well it's it's because of that
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because they were so involved and I'm I mean I started with leh high fire back many
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years ago and now I'm now I'm with another city but I always like
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it would be to come back to leh high fire I would like do I mean like that would probably be the only place that could get me to change jobs because I
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just love this community and it's my whole family is here my my siblings and
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and everyone's here and it's a it's it's you feel like you're home even though
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it's totally different totally different I mean when I graduated at high school I think my graduating class was 170 wow
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yeah yeah a little different yeah a like I had friends that rode their horses to school in high school because they were
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part of the FFA like when we got the very first stop light I remember that I
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remember like things have changed a lot since then yeah but it's
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still Lehi offers a a unique a unique transition of of this like
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leld like commitment to what we were built on I think that's
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a big deal I think it is too I agree and that's part of what you guys have is this Heritage and this Rich family I I
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can tell your family's very unified I mean as far as very and part probably because of this Heritage right but this
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and working side by side that's one of the benefits of working together is you do end up you know making relationships
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when you're working together right another good principle thank you for joining us on roots and branches of
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Lehigh I hope today's story helped you feel a little more connected to the people who make up our community
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remember every person here has a unique story and together we're what makes Lehi feel like home if you know someone who
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until next time keep growing those roots and reaching out to your branches take care
