What is your oldest account ?

[Lee Stockwell]

We move as many restaurants as possible to the early morning.

A great tip we got from Jeff Cross way back when he was "just a carpet cleaner". Tip has worked out well.

 

[Brian H]

I took a client from the dept store company I used to work for back in 92-93. He's still with me. A lot of clients have come and gone, many removed the carpets

Was that Adler and Son?

 

[Brian H]

We are a 75 year old company and every now and then I will get a old timer saying they have used us from the start.

 

[ronbeatty]

Bob, At one time we did 34 restaurants every month, gave them all up for the very reasons you stated. This last one will go soon, the only nice part is it closes at 8:00. Can be home by 10:00PM.

 

[Art Kelley]

My daughter threw out my copies of 70 to 85 invoice, said most were dead and I should be embarrassed by my prices back then.

Murray State since 77. City since 72.

Children and grandchildren of some of my first customers as well.

I'm going through my taxes and opened up this envelope that was sealed for 39 years. A little time travel.
A 55 gallon drum of prespray concentrate from Product-sol:

My first employee's paycheck:

Dry cleaning fluid for furniture cleaning. Pour it in a bucket, brush it on, towel it off. LOL

Polisher from K-Mart, qts of oil 65c each.

Jobs I did, prices weren't bad back then considering the cost of living.

Paycheck from long gone company I subcontracted for that first year. I had a chimp and a uniform. 5-600/week. Good income for a 20 year old in the 70s. Those were fun days. If it was a beautiful sunny day or I was hung over, I would call in sick. Can't do that stuff anymore.