Starting a store sounded like fun, sort of like putting on a play.
Nor did I have any idea that within a decade, it would all start to fall apart..
I would open my store on State Street on the cusp of a retail boom at the height of the American Century, although I had only a faint sense of that yet.
A strong new business cycle was brewing that few saw coming.
In 1979, I had no grasp of national economics, but I did have a sense of something afoot.
But what about afterward? What if the show wasn\'t a hit? What if I couldn\'t pull a salary out of it? Later in my career I would understand that luck and timing were big factors in my success.
I\'d get to write the script, design the production, be the lead actor, hire people I liked, and direct the whole thing! After a year of answering to bureaucrats in my job as coordinator of the new State Street Mall, it would be wonderful to be the boss of everything.
Starting a store sounded like fun, sort of like putting on a play
