The Illinois-based owner of Things Remembered plans to close its stores, home office in Richmond Heights and North Jackson warehouse operations later in January. Store-closing sales are ongoing.
Paul Stevens
It was a seminal moment in Boake Sells’ life as he and his wife Marian loaded up their belongings in a U-Haul to move with their two young children from Fort Dodge for a new job in Milwaukee.
He was 29 and in his first job out of college. He worked for a phone company, but lost the job for “lack of humility” after a dispute with bosses on marketing strategy. He then worked in hydraulic sales for a Pocahontas company before starting work as a manufacturer’s rep for hydraulics from the basement of their Fort Dodge home. But it “went broke,” he said.