Comments for Marvin801's Weblog http://marvin801.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:03:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on About by Joy Lemm http://marvin801.wordpress.com/about/#comment-35 Joy Lemm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:25:10 +0000 #comment-35 Hi marvin, Don't know if you remember me, but I had one or two of your area rugs, and also helped Henry out at the store for warehouse sales. I was employed by Northern Trust (across the street). Happy to hear of your success. I now live in Florida, on the west coast. Joy lemm Hi marvin,
Don’t know if you remember me, but I had one or two of your area rugs, and also helped Henry out at the store for warehouse sales. I was employed by Northern Trust (across the street).
Happy to hear of your success. I now live in Florida, on the west coast.
Joy lemm

]]> Comment on What is a hand tufted rug? by Skyking http://marvin801.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/what-is-a-hand-tufted-rug/#comment-23 Skyking Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:39:10 +0000 http://marvin801.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-23 Ditto to the previous post. Any recent and relevant information would be greatly appreciated. Ditto to the previous post. Any recent and relevant information would be greatly appreciated.

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]]> Comment on What is a hand tufted rug? by Georgia Spencer http://marvin801.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/what-is-a-hand-tufted-rug/#comment-20 Georgia Spencer Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:36:12 +0000 http://marvin801.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-20 I'm looking for rug making lessons and a source to buy a rug tufting gun. Can you be of any help to me? thanks. I’m looking for rug making lessons and a source to buy a rug tufting gun. Can you be of any help to me? thanks.

]]> Comment on About by Marvin Glazer http://marvin801.wordpress.com/about/#comment-19 Marvin Glazer Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:28:04 +0000 #comment-19 I went into business on October 4th 1972. I was 27 years old. I rented the balcony of the H.L. Latt and Co. furniture store that was located at 14 S. Wells St. in the Chicago downtown area called the Loop. I had worked there previously and was a friend of the owner Henry Latt . My rent was only $200.00 per month. I helped with sales in the store when my carpet and rug business was slow and my friend Henry gave me free rent. This was deal you could only get from a friend. I admired Henry for his business acumen. I purchased $100.00 worth of Trend Mills wall to wall carpet samples. I was given a key to a rug showroom located in the Merchandise Mart. I took my customers to the showroom and special ordered the rugs for my customers. Soon I realized that the rugs were not in stock and that there was too long a wait for them, so I started to buy rugs for inventory. This was the beginning of my area rug business. A store became available at 8 S. Wells, right next door to 14 S Wells. It had been a fabric store and was vacant for many years. My friends helped to clean it out and put in a bathroom. I bought a load of crateing lumber and covered the walls, then I sprayed the walls with a clear finish. I put up a 4’x6’ rug rack and other displays for my carpet samples . We also stocked and sold carpet remnants. The rent went up every year and I was told that the building was going to be torn down. Time to move. I moved to 801 Main St in Evanston in June of 1979, the suburb that is just north of Chicago. Shortly after the move I decided to concentrate on the area rug business. I stopped selling wall to wall carpet and carpet remnants. Business kept on growing until the street became blocked for sewer construction in 1992. The street was torn up for almost 2 years. A huge access hole 35 feet across and 70 feet deep was dug right next to my building. The building started to sink. This was all part of a flood control project. Unfortunately my customers could not get to my store. I realized that no matter how hard you worked to build a business, you could lose it. The street was torn up for about 18 months. I decided that I had had enough of the Chicago area and I wanted to get as far away as possible. My wife and I had vacationed in the Seattle area and we decided that we would move. We sold our home in Wilmette Illinois in 2 days. We bought a new home with a great view of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains, where the sunsets are the very best. Then I had a big sale and sold a lot inventory from my store and warehouse. We moved all our belongings and the rugs that were left to our new home in Washington. I opened my current store on September, 10th 1994 at 116 Avenue D in Snohomish. The web site followed and we were one of the first rug catalogs on the internet. Thank you, Marvin I went into business on October 4th 1972. I was 27 years old. I rented the balcony of the H.L. Latt and Co. furniture store that was located at 14 S. Wells St. in the Chicago downtown area called the Loop. I had worked there previously and was a friend of the owner Henry Latt . My rent was only $200.00 per month. I helped with sales in the store when my carpet and rug business was slow and my friend Henry gave me free rent.
This was deal you could only get from a friend. I admired Henry for his business acumen.

I purchased $100.00 worth of Trend Mills wall to wall carpet samples. I was given a key to a rug showroom located in the Merchandise Mart. I took my customers to the showroom and special ordered the rugs for my customers. Soon I realized that the rugs were not in stock and that there was too long a wait for them, so I started to buy rugs for inventory. This was the beginning of my area rug business.

A store became available at 8 S. Wells, right next door to 14 S Wells. It had been a fabric store and was vacant for many years. My friends helped to clean it out and put in a bathroom. I bought a load of crateing lumber and covered the walls, then I sprayed the walls with a clear finish. I put up a 4’x6’ rug rack and other displays for my carpet samples . We also stocked and sold carpet remnants. The rent went up every year and I was told that the building was going to be torn down. Time to move.

I moved to 801 Main St in Evanston in June of 1979, the suburb that is just north of Chicago. Shortly after the move I decided to concentrate on the area rug business. I stopped selling wall to wall carpet and carpet remnants. Business kept on growing until the street became blocked for sewer construction in 1992. The street was torn up for almost 2 years. A huge access hole 35 feet across and 70 feet deep was dug right next to my building. The building started to sink. This was all part of a flood control project. Unfortunately my customers could not get to my store. I realized that no matter how hard you worked to build a business, you could lose it. The street was torn up for about 18 months.

I decided that I had had enough of the Chicago area and I wanted to get as far away as possible. My wife and I had vacationed in the Seattle area and we decided that we would move. We sold our home in Wilmette Illinois in 2 days. We bought a new home with a great view of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains, where the sunsets are the very best. Then I had a big sale and sold a lot inventory from my store and warehouse. We moved all our belongings and the rugs that were left to our new home in Washington.

I opened my current store on September, 10th 1994 at 116 Avenue D in Snohomish.
The web site followed and we were one of the first rug catalogs on the internet.

Thank you,
Marvin

]]> Comment on About by bibomedia http://marvin801.wordpress.com/about/#comment-18 bibomedia Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:13:13 +0000 #comment-18 :) :)

]]> Comment on Hello world! by marvin801 http://marvin801.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/hello-world/#comment-11 marvin801 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:53:21 +0000 #comment-11 Thank you for acceping us. Thank you for acceping us.

]]> Comment on Better Business Bureau by rugs http://marvin801.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/better-business-bureau/#comment-2 rugs Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:04:49 +0000 http://marvin801.wordpress.com/?p=17#comment-2 That is a pretty amazing statistic. People get disgruntled at the smallest things so that is a statistic to be proud of. That is a pretty amazing statistic. People get disgruntled at the smallest things so that is a statistic to be proud of.

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