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Andy's Produce Market Going Strong After 50 years! by P.A.D.
ON THE COVER:
ay back early
50's in Ogden, Utah lived a family with a mom & dad, 8 children, a produce busi- ness and big dreams. The story begins with the Skikos family, who owned a small fruit stand and drove from house to house delivering all kinds of fruits and vegetables practically every day
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by, "You are NOT going to tell anybody about this!"
Fun Facts & Trivia #1
The first Thanksgiving in North America is believed to have been held in 1619 or 1621.
The old produce truck that went a long way. of the 18
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week, and all of them helped. One day Andrew, or Andy, as brother Dee and family called him and their dad were doing the regular route and their old truck broke down. In those days the mechanic came to you when you needed help (boy wouldn't that be nice). Well, Andy was stuck there with a load of watermelon (they picked them up once a week from over 40 miles away as well as other pro- duce) for well over four to five hours before dad came back with the mechanic.
Being a young entrepreneur
and watching dad for so long gave Andy an idea. People started coming up to the truck and before he knew it, he had
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sold all the watermelons. By the time dad got back they were all gone.
And, that's where it really
dawned on the family that it would be easier to have a stand on the corner of a loca- tion. Why drive all over town when you could have people come to you and buy products. The only problem with selling fruits and vegetables in Ogden, Utah was the fact it was seasonal. The family had to figure out what to do in the cold winters months and temperatures that were well below freezing. During winter months they sold Christmas trees to make ends meet. But the summers were always good for the family and for crops. Especially cherries. One year, in fact, there were
so many on the market they couldn't sell them and make any profit in their town. They had picked up an entire truck load, and being perishables they had to find a way to sell them, and quick. They decided to cover the truck with one of those army truck tarps and drive up to Yellowstone National Park, sell cherries and go fishing,. Dee called the fishing part pretty funny because they had never really fished before. Off to Yellowstone they went
and they drove all day and got there some 7-9 hours later and it was late. They needed rest. As they drove into the Park, all the ranger asked them was if they had any had any fire arms. They didn't ask if they Continued on page 5...
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities ~ Janos Arany
Some experts think the first Thanksgiving dinner was served by the Pilgrims in 1621 at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Others credit the settlers near Virginia's Jamestown with celebrating the first Thanksgiving as their version of England's ancient Harvest Home Festival.
Per Capita Consumption of Turkey in U.S. (2010): about 18 lbs.
A wife called her husband as she was driving to an appointment. She arrived, and the husband could tell from her voice that she was getting frustrated. Finally she said, "I know I had my cell phone with me. And now I can't find it!" The husband replied, "Aren't you talking on it!?" There was a solid period of stunned silence as the reality of the situation sank in - followed
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