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Show Buisness Profile f --A . ; J t-J "V-'V ; ''"I Jack Riley The mayor of Highland Drive is what his colleagues call Jack Riley. His concern with the development of the strip has benefitted all of the businesses there, both large and small. Mr. Riley worked diligently as president of Highland Village. Vil-lage. (Highland has now merged with the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce.) It was largely through his efforts that long endeavors to get curb and gutter as well as pavement from 27th. S. to 37th. S. were finally realized His business, Riley's Shoe Store, is located at 3186 Highland Drive. It all started one day when Mr. Riley was out for a ride. For 20 years he had been traveling tra-veling selling shoes for a national nat-ional concern. As he cruised down Highland Drive he was impressed with the countryside. country-side. He noticed the charm of a graceful residential section with the promising possibility of a shopping center adjacent to it. Here, thought Mr. Riley, would be a good place for a shoe store to meet the needs of the family with quality footwear. On August 21, 1919 Mr. Riley opened his store. He had worked work-ed as a shoe salesman at the Old Bell Sample Shoe Store when he was attending the U of U. His long experience selling shoes on the road was of infinite value to him, as was his academic course in business and commerce at the university. Since the opening of the store his wife, Dorothy, and his brother. Allen, have both worked there. The Riley's live at 2147 S. 18th. E. The policy of the store has always been to please the customer cus-tomer and to give the best fitting fit-ting possible. Mr. Riley has a good selection of quality shoes to choose from. He believes in fine merchandise which can be depended upon. He claims that the "Kali-sten-iks" which he stocks are the finist child-rens child-rens shoes available. Because of his adherence to the policy he established, Jack Riley has many return customers which make up the solid bulk of his sales. Jack "the Jug", as he is affectionately called in Kiwanis initiated the program of passing pass-ing the jug (an empty one) at Kiwanis Club meetings. The money which is collected is used to help underprivileged children. And when you go in his store you will notice one of the familiar fami-liar gum ball machines which the organization has placed to help gather funds for this project. pro-ject. You can be sure that when there are improvements to be made in the Highland-Sugar House area, Jack Riley will have a part in them. |
