In 1906 his great-grandfather, Benjamin Salinas, opened a furniture shop with a brother-in-law, Joel Rocha.
There was his family's furniture shop, engulfed in a mountain of flames.
Heather Maskill, who owns the Little Furniture Shop on Wyle Cop, said parking was an issue, but it was the same in towns across the country.
But as I keep saying, that old man down in Croydon, can rebuild his furniture shop, so can we - and we owe it to the workforce.
No-one will forget the images of the woman jumping from a burning building or the furniture shop that had survived the blitz now tragically burnt to the ground.
I'd given up trying to solve this decorating conundrum when, on a recent trip to India Jane, an affordable furniture shop in London, I spotted a silver-framed, three-sided stand-up mirror.
There, as a symbol it could be done, was 81-year-old Maurice Reeves, the man whose family furniture shop was reduced to ashes in last Summer's riots and who this year re-opened it.
Li Shichun, who runs the downtown furniture shop Vintiques Shanghai Art Deco, says there used to be a fairly steady flow of Deco pieces onto the market, driven by the demolition of old homes to make way for new construction and a general attitude among locals that Deco furniture wasn't something worth keeping.
While Ms. Tang and the rest of the lonely hearts club flock to the do-it-yourself furniture shop for its clean, homey environment, they pose something of a challenge for IKEA. They sit for hours in the cafeteria, leaving behind orange peels and egg shells they have picked off boiled eggs brought from home.
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The neighborhood men either were in business for themselves the owners of the local candy store, grocery store, jewelry store, dress shop, furniture shop, service station, and delicatessen, or the proprietors of tiny industrial job shops over by the Newark-Irvington line, or self-employed plumbers, electricians, housepainters, and boilermen or were foot-soldier salesmen like my father, out every day in the city streets and in people's houses, peddling their wares on commission.
Hickenlooper gets the atmosphere of apocalyptic listlessness right the silver-foil walls, the overstuffed thrift-shop furniture, the people sitting around, some naked, some shooting up, with Warhol making himself available for an instant to anyone outrageous enough to grab his attention.
It was one ad in a series which was designed to show that all kinds of people shop for furniture at Ikea.
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As for the visitors they've welcomed into their world, everything one might need is on hand: The nursery has enough greenery to kit out an entire garden, while the shop sells furniture, gardening tools, baskets, glassware and even the china one eats off of alfresco.
On her way home from work, years ago, she kept seeing Ercol furniture in a local house clearance shop.
Or you can fire up the computer and surf over to online furniture outlet Design Within Reach, and shop for one of the graceful chairs designed by the Finnish genius Eero Saarinen--he died in 1961--that are crudely echoed on the Jetsons.
Her father is a furniture salesman and her mother works in a shop.
In Carmarthen the YMCA has taken over an old shop and is selling larger piece of furniture - tables and wardrobes - alongside the china and books.
One day, three guys in a black BMW came to his shop, allegedly asking him to check their furniture at home for repairs.
Gould's story is also framed by another narrator, Sid Hammet, a present-day faker of antique furniture who discovers Gould's book of fish paintings in a junk shop.
Or you can fire up the computer and surf over to online furniture outlet Design Within Reach (nasdaq: DWRI - news - people ), and shop for one of the graceful chairs designed by the Finnish genius Eero Saarinen--he died in 1961--that are crudely echoed on the Jetsons.
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