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    Default Sale Flyer from The Keeping Room 1989

    32 years ago, this was our sale flyer, I printed this all by hand using a fine point Sharpie and photos cut out of catalogs, then took it to the printer. There was no money to hire a professional typesetter and we didn't own a computer. My wife Jennifer and I would hand-address and stamp each one until midnight for three nights in a row to get these out. I came across this in one of my desk files today....

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    Default Re: Sale Flyer from The Keeping Room 1989

    Wow, times have changed, lol. You have certainly moved up in the world.

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    Very cool, thanks for sharing

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    Default Re: Sale Flyer from The Keeping Room 1989

    Very impressive work! Small business can-do attitude at its finest. Hats off to Duane and family for not just living but exemplifying the American Dream. It's not always easy but so worth it.

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    Thank you! It was 70 hours a week back then, and me driving the truck to New England every other week to get those pieces you saw in the flyer, because those shops making them didn't box and ship. Even today, I can go all the way to Maine without a map or needing to set up the GPS, I know all the roads from the 400 or so trips I made to the workshops in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Back them I would leave Wash DC at 2 a.m. so as to get to the GW Bridge in NYC before rush hour and cross at 6:30 a.m., the be in Hingham MA to by 10 a.m. It would take 6 hours to load the truck by hand and pad everything, leave at 4 p.m. and get back to NYC on the GW by 7:30 p.m or 8 p.m (had to stop for dinner), missing the evening rush hour and all of Philly, Wilmington, Baltimore and DC, home in the driveway by 11 p.m. (yes, I broke all sorts of time and duty rules back then). Wake up at 7 a.m and go unload the truck! Ahhhh...the energy I had when I was in my 30's.....
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    We're all grateful for the time and energy you spent waaaayyy-back then! I agree that to have the energy that we had in the 30's would be great.... I think that's why we have kids at an earlier age too. BTW i just turned 60 and while I still try to do lots of active things getting up at 2 a.m. would not be one of them! -Beth

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