Word: obediah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League Pants." Several years ago, the Leonards bought a big parking lot for 5,000 cars on the bank of the Trinity River and began experimenting with free bus rides from it to the store. The buses lured customers back, but provided a slow and hot ride. Obediah thought of a subway. The Leonards acquired five old Washington, D.C., streetcars, spiffed them up with stainless steel and new seats, installed air conditioning, and carved a double-track tunnel between store and Jot: This week the M (for Marvin) & O (for Obediah) subway-"the first subway south of the Mason-Dixon...
...than the city fathers were prepared to pay. Then a downtown mall was tried, but planners failed to provide enough convenient parking space; in the Texas long hot summer, the few potted trees they installed did little to shade the wide concrete expanse, and business declined. But Marvin and Obediah Leonard, who own Leonards, the biggest department store in town, refused to move to the suburbs...