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The mallвЂ™s grand opening can best be described as humanity unleashed. It seemed a busy place, but it was quiet as a tomb compared to what was to come. The sales floors were busy with different work crews setting up and later stocking the store fixtures. He promised those of us who began and finished the project that he would place a note in our personnel files that we could always work for Allied Stores. Before he returned to New York, we took him for Texas-style barbeque. We worked hard for two or three weeks getting the stations set-up for the opening, and actually finished sooner than projected, making our VP a hero. Each morning we would begin work by stocking our carts with the supplies that were to be left at the various point-of-sale counters. Our supplies were so voluminous that they took up the entire area between the inner and outer doors of the south entrance (nearest Northwest Highway) to the store. He was as skeptical of us as we were of him. It was the first time most of us had met, let alone worked with, a New York businessman.

We had a crew of six or eight college kids led by a store vice president from New York. Our job was to find each point-of-sale station, which was not easy due to the unfinished construction, and then to stock it exactly like every other station with a credit card imprinter, a stapler and the various sizes of embossed paper bags. These vice presidents must have been under enormous pressure to get the store in position to open as scheduled. TitcheвЂ™s parent company, Allied Stores Inc., sent their company vice presidents to Texas to ensure the timely opening of their new store. The job, as it turned out, was not construction but to set up and stock the point-of-sale stations throughout the Titche-Goettinger store at NorthPark Center. A few days later I received a call to come to work the next morning.

I went down to the construction shack and filled out an application. I thought this meant construction work to finish building the buildings which paid well in those days. Rumor had it that college kids were being hired to complete this mammoth project. The strike was threatening to delay the scheduled opening of a new shopping center called NorthPark. Then, word got out that a strike had been called against the huge construction project near Northwest Highway and North Central Expressway. Summer jobs had been tough to find early in the summer. I returned home to get a summer job to make some spending money, and maybe some money to begin school again come September. It was the summer of 1965, the summer after my freshman year in college.

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couldn't watch anything else on tv because it was just the coverage.Д¬oming home Dad had told us that he saw President Kennedy just minutes before he was shot.Дad was still at the store, the only democrat out of all the executives who were at the Dallas Trade Mart waiting to hear the President.ДЄmong them was The President of Titches, Mr Lee Starr, who had roomed with JFK at Harvard for one semester.Д© years later, we found out that by marriage we are distant cousins to JFK. Mom told me in later years that we even went to church to pray.we are Catholic and I remember not being too happy. However, I went to school and remember my 1st grade teacher, Miss Walker telling us that either the President had been shot or was dead.Д¬oming home from school, I lived just across the street, Mom was crying.

I remember that I wanted to stay home from school that day, because I knew Dad would be able to see President Kennedy. I don't remember the move but I was there 50 years ago. Here is a tale that you won't hear from many folks :)ДҐ0 years ago (Summer of 1963) My family moved from Boston to Dallas, my Father being transferred from Allied Stores, Jordan Marsh to Titches in Dallas.

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