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and saw a tag saying Sam Meyers Clothing, Louisville, Ky. We just called 14) there and he said he’d sell us some coats. We didn’t even know enough about the business then to know that's not how you usually do it.”
"Well, we loaded up in our old pickup and we drove to Louisville and bought a bunch of coats. We came back and sold them too,” April laughed. “Seemed like everybody wanted them, the horse: show people, preachers, young boys wanted them for the prom. We sold them cheap, usually charged $5 or $10 per person. We went back the next year and bought another bunch of coats from Sam Meyers. We figured as long as we were making money we were in good shape.”
"We pretty much got into the shoe business the same way. Once again, we didn’t .have no idea of what we were doing,” Betty laughed. "We had an old open van by then and we drove right up to Chicago and bought a load of: think we paid 50 cents a pair for them. Wej sell them cheap and still make some mon
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