Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those of our customers who loyally helped our strike, hoping as we hoped that we all could save what was special and good about Steve's, we would like to say thank you, but we have lost the store. The owner now will be able, as he hoped he would, to tell his workers just what to do. He turned out to have enough money to wait us out, apparently indefinitely. You can go back now, if you like, and have some Joey/Steve's ("Jeeve's"?) ice cream, if you stayed away to help the strike...
...store used to be special. Just getting ice cream, you could feel there was something funny, and good, about the place: the workers, and the owner, were having fun. And there was something more, too: what was rarest about Steve's--precious, even, to the workers--was the sense, allowed to us, that the store was partly our own. We helped decide how Steve's would evolve, and we therefore became intensely attached to the place--proud of it, and willing to worry over the hundred little decisions that keep coming up as you try to sustain a little working...
...still, is an ice cream store worth such a fuss? Don't we know, people sometimes asked, that most people work in jobs where they take orders, and understand they are putting in time to make money for the owner? Yes, we know. But we have seen that work can be better than that, and now we don't intend to forget. We hope that, gradually, other people will come to share that vision; that one day we'll all expect jobs that let us work for shared goals, not just for money. Then the Steve's strike...
Barely six hours earlier, the arena in Hartford, Conn., had echoed with the cheers of 5,000 fans watching an evening college basketball game. Now it lay in ruins. Said Restaurateur Frank Parseliti, owner of one of the 50-odd small businesses situated in the-$70 million civic center complex that was built only three years ago: "It looks like a big meteorite crashed in the middle of the coliseum." With a terrifying roar, the 2½-acre, 1,400-ton steel-latticed roof of the deserted arena had collapsed under the weight of 4.8 in. of wet snow...
Several employees said in October employee-management relations were once very congenial, but had deteriorated after the original owner, Steve Herrill, sold the store in August to Joseph and Nino Crugnale...