Word: slating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made it a point to have lunch together as often as we could. We would try to have lunch almost every day," said Ben Olken, owner of the old Bicycle Exchange and Slate's longtime friend. "We often met for coffee in the morning at Bartley's and we'd toss coin to see who had to pay. It was a little game...
Through work at his parent's dairy and produce farm, Slate honed his entrepreneurial skills at an early age. He delivered butter and eggs by horse and buggy for his mother. And later at Clark, he financed his college education by working as a cook at a local greasy spoon...
...Depression crescendoed in the early and mid 1930's Slate, with only $300, opened "University Stationery" on North Harvard St. in Allston. In the 1940's he moved the business to a grey concrete-block building on Holyoke...
...later met Victor Harnish, a Law School student who owned a laundry business at 1284 Mass. Ave. When Harnish graduated, Slate took over the business and ran it until...
...Phillip's Bookstore, next door at 1288 Mass. Ave., went out of business, and Slate moved his stationery store into the more spacious location. Bob Slate Stationer currently operates in that same space...