Thursday October 30th
To Worthington to look at upholstery fabric in larger pieces. Found a textured velvet at $22.90 a yard in “saddle” that seems more right than the velvets I’ve been looking at.
On to John Belli’s wholesale house north of Westerville. His driver told us Saturday that John is going out of business after 10 years. John showed me his financial statement. On $800,000 sales he lost $36,000! He hopes to get in at Engels as Cut Flower manager. I bought about $2,000 at 30% discount but his prices were high to start with 40% discount on case lots.
Home at 2:30 lunch with Howard and David’s pork barbecue and Long Island coleslaw. At 5 Mary and Kenny and Mary and Carl picked me up driving Hecker’s new Pontiac LeMans. To Lexington to Smorgasbord. Everything delicious and we all ate too much.
Home about 8. Showed slides of my Connecticut trip.
Mary and Kenny gave me a “Big Boggle” and Mary and Carl gave me book of poems.