Word: carpeteers
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...stumbled upon one of those places in the minivan, children strapped in behind you in those church pews--or maybe in a roadster, top down, the wind laughing through the sparse seedlings of your new plug-a-rug--and wondered how a nowhere burg like Dalton, Ga., comes to carpet the planet. Or how a look-fast town, a highway blur, becomes the Garlic Capital (Gilroy, Calif.) or the Storm-Watching Capital (Bandon, Ore.) of the universe (or so they claim...
They had it going here for a while. They had the carpets, yeah, but that wasn't all. This was both the carpet and the beauty-queen capital...
...judged the last Miss Resaca pageant they had," says Zack, who owns a company that supplies raw materials to the 171 carpet manufacturers in Georgia. He's showing us the pictures in the poolroom out at his spread, which looks like J.R. Ewing's ranch. Zack says he's thinking about turning the front acreage into a landing strip for his Piper...
Here's this little place, 90 minutes north of Atlanta, where a woman named Catherine Evans Whitener (1880-1964) made a tufted chenille bedspread, and then another, and another, and then someone made a machine that did it faster, and then in 1996, 1.641 billion sq. yds. of carpet were shipped to every place from Hackensack to Hong Kong...
Three-fourths of the nation's $10 billion wholesale carpet is made here today. But alas, there is a problem in Dalton...