Fred Leeson

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My-Te-Fine Merchant (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Biography of Fred G. Meyer, a pioneering Pacific Northwest entrepreneur who developed the one-stop shopping center that combine groceries with clothing, drugs, variety and many other departments. From his start in Portland, Oregon, Meyer expanded into several Pacific Northwest states. During a working career of 70 years, the self-taught Meyer evolved from door-to-door coffee sales to his one-stop centers ranging up to 200,000 square feet. His MY-TE-FINE house brand on food and other items became a part of the Pacific Northwest lexicon. Though parsimonious throughout his life, Meyer left a sizable estate that became the largest charitable trust in Oregon history. Meyer generally limited his public appearances to store grand openings, where his smiling face a bow ties became well-recognized. In private, Meyer was brilliantly smart, aggressive, single-minded, domineering and often abrasive, yet sometimes unexpectedly compassionate. This biography draws on lengthy oral history interviews given by Meyer's closest working associates to the Oregon Historical Society in the years after Meyer's death. Their reminiscences create a picture of a tireless, creative entrepreneur who lived for nothing but expanding his business and creating economic opportunities for others.

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Autor

Fred Leeson is a journalist and author who has lived in Portland, Oregon, almost steadily since his arrival as an adolescent in 1961. He holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a J.D. from the Lewis & Clark Law School. Leeson was a reporter at the Oregon Journal from 1972 to 1982, and at the Oregonian from 1982 to 2007.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Leeson shopped at Fred Meyer stores at Hawthorne, Rose City, Walnut Park and Hollywood. To-day, he lives close to Hollywood West, which he visits frequently. In 1973, Leeson, then 24, spent about an hour interviewing Fred Meyer, who was 87. During those minutes, Meyer displayed many of the traits reflected in this book.
Leeson's earlier books are Rose City Justice, a history of the Portland legal community, and Multnomah, a history of Multnomah County, written with Jewel Lansing.
At the time of this writing, Leeson was president of the non-profit Bosco-Milligan Foundation, an architectural preservation education and advocacy organization that owns and operates the Architectural Heritage Center in Portland, Oregon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780996062626
• Artikelnr.: 45519684