I was sitting in Max’s barber shop getting a haircut. At the time I was working for Safeway as a meat consultant. Max said “why don’t you open a meat market in the empty high time liquor store next to me”. I contacted the owner and he rented me the 900 sqft. store for $300.00 a month & sold me the neon sign for $200.00. The surrounding stores and bowling ally drew a good crowd to the center and there was plenty of parking. I could not have picked a better location if I had known what I was doing. My father in law Morgan Antrim lent me $4,000. dollars, we made a loan and it began.

The store was successful from the very beginning. For the next 35 years I was blessed with great people to work with. It would not have happened without them. Dan Desario, Joe Mehl, Tom Burt, Mike Day, Mark Klopstein, Craig Brock, Eric Onnen, Reynaldo & Gloria Bustos, Alfred Bustos, Frankie Serbus, David & Tracy Hill, Mike Block, Bill Berger, Margaret Block, Susan Serbus, Nola Nicklin, Tessie Tarango, Troy Tashima, Steve Gully, Jarom-Veda-Jordan, Jessica Mann & countless others who contributed to its success.