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Broken car sends due into career in fashion
In Florence Italy 1952 car trouble led Wally Coons of San Francisco and Ross Nixon of Durango Colorado to settle in Florence where they built the House of Pavone a thriving wholesale fashion house serving Bergdorf Goodman L S Ayres Bullocks Gumps Marshall Field and other top shops. Their tale from furniture exports to couture shows how American tastes and figures have shifted and how demand for bold colored fabrics and butterfly patterns shaped their business today. Don’t store gasoline or kerosene in glass jugs use them to start fires only and avoid using gasoline as a cleaner.
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Florence
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Rome
Wally Coons
San Francisco
Ross Nixon
Durango
Colo
Europe
Urbino
Coons
United States
Australia
House of Pavone
Bergdorf Goodman
New York
L. S. Ayres
Annapolis
Bullocks-Wilshire
Los Angeles
Gumps
Marshall Field’s
Chicago
Pavone
Meredith Imports
Paris
Milan
Nixon and Coons
Rela