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Show cousins" Mike said. Mike is leaving Park City, but is lie retiring from business? busi-ness? No . . . he has very definite plans to open a clothing store in Salt Lake City this summer. "I've made so many wonderful wonder-ful friends here," Mike said. "It's simply that circumstances have forced me to move that I'm leaving" MIKE'S will lie open for business until May 3. s; Mike Allam Plans Retirement Park City will miss MikeAl-lam. MikeAl-lam. Since 1925 his has been a familiar name. His old Model T truck that chugiied up the canyon from Salt Lake every day in those early days was the forerunner of MIKE'S Clothing Store-closing out now after more than 34 years in one location on Main Street. Mike Allam was born in Lebanon and came to the United States in 1921. His father had been in this country since 1901 so Mike and his mother were automatically United States citizens. cit-izens. The senior Allam spent 12 years in Muncie, Indiana, and then after a return visit to his homeland came back to the United States in 1920 and settled in Salt Lake City. Mike enjoys reminiscing about the early days. 'That old Model T. truck of mine came up the canyon in ANY kind of weather big cars would get stuck in the snow but the Model T came right through, I never missed.'' During those days Mike went door to door selling his wares and twice a month when pay days at the Mines came around, very often Mike would stay at Mrs. Giacoma's apartments and then his customers would follow him there. His first venture in a store was one year spent intheDavich building and then a year later in 1939 he bought his present store from a shoemaker named Backman. Helen Tippett has been a faithful employee for 23 years and, Mike confided, "Lots of well-known Pa r kit es worked here Violet Terry and Alice O'Neill, for instance." Mike and his wife, Amelia, have lived in Salt Lake City all these years and are the proud parents of two sons, Dick and Roliert; three daughters, Dar-lene, Dar-lene, Lorraine and Patricia; and they have 17 grandchildren. Mike seems proud to be a Lebanese. He explained, You know, Lebanon is the one country coun-try in the Middle East that has a four point agreement with the United States, so in case of trouble there, the United States will help. People in Lebanon think very highly of our country coun-try here." He and his wife have made two trips to the land of his birth, one in 1963 and the latest in 1972 when he spent seven weeks there visiting relatives All |