Methinks Playbuddy is perhaps 19.
Tom Creed, what happened to him? Did he waste away his family fortune? Did he get married and have kids? (Or was he already married with kids, I can't remember). He was a bit short and extremely young and silly when he inherited. Did he sell out? I bet he did. He wasn't very nice at all. I thought him shifty and slimey, to put it politely.
I wonder...
The recession of the late 80's early 90's kicked in. Holt's renovated and got all flashy across the street from him.
Alot of businesses you might know and remember got wiped out then. Alan Cherry almost did, but I knew his landlord, who let him, and quite a few other Yorkville businesses keep going. He had plenty of cash reserves, so the recession for him was simply a mad Boxing Day spree as he grabbed up properties left right & centre. He let Alan stay in business, even after that nasty setback where he got dinged by the city $100K I think for passing off lightweight male skins as females, and minks for sables. With the help of Jeanne Beker, and all the publicity he was getting as clothing supplier to FT, eventually Alan recovered was able to turn it around, and is now in Yorkville in Hazelton Lanes at the corner of Avenue Rd. His old Yonge Street location became a bargain book store. I'm not sure what it is these days. I rarely visit that part of Yonge anymore. Mulroney ushered in the GST, and with an immediate 15% visibly tacked onto all purchases, many retailers couldn't hang on. Bretton's made a big splash onto the scene, becoming the anchor store for the Manulife Centre. It held on just long enough to drive Creeds out of business before it too went under. Last I heard, it was an Indigo bookstore. Eventually Creeds went out of business, William Ashley expanded it's space into what was Creeds, and Tom saw the light.
He joined the ranks of entrepreneurs who wanted the income and lifestyle a multimillion dollar business brings, without the hassles & headaches associated with a traditional multimillion dollar brick & mortar business ...like tying up your capital in millions of dollars in inventories, or accounts receivables you're unable to collect. He was sick of being tied to his store 12 hrs a day, and became an independent distributor in the network marketing industry, representing a product line from a Utah based company call NuSkin. At the time alphahydroxy acids, retinols, vitamin A acids, antioxydant skincare etc was new and revolutionary, and the first batch of baby boomers were starting to see those first few wrinkles. For the first time, skincare actually improved a person's skin, reversed signs of aging, and wasn't just greasy lubricants slathered onto the skin. No one else had that kind of skincare technology, and the only way you could get it was through a NuSkin distributor. He joined the ranks of NuSkin, just as they were hitting their critical mass point and going into momemtum, where the sales went from $4 million a month to over $40. Nowadays, it's hard to find any skincare not using this technology, but at the time it was cutting edge, and it's introduction into the marketplace turned many ordinary people into multi-millionaires. Today, NuSkin is a huge entity traded on the NY Stock exchange doing billions of dollars a year in sales. I have a few friends that are still earning monthly residual cheques from their NuSkin businesses they started over 17 yrs ago, and haven't done a thing with in the past 12 yrs.
Judi, you and I must have met, that seems a certainty. Although I was always just someone's friend or someone's PA. I was purposely never A-list on my own.
I'm thinking the same thing. We had to have crossed paths at some point.
