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However, a tiny fraction of dads and granddads did have oil wells. Eddie Chiles, founder and Chairman of the Western Company, cleverly figured that the best way to target these prospects was to catch them at an unguarded moment: while watching Disney on Sunday nights with the kids and grandkids. Listen to the broadcast of Ronald Reagan featuring a story about the Woodard Boys. A few years later, I was fifteen and looking for something to sell.

While no threat to the daily Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the News-Tribune was a cult favorite of the movers-and-shakers and the perfect vehicle for advertisers desiring to reach this readership. Publisher Mack Williams was a huge proponent of free enterprise and young people willing to work. He readily agreed to allow me to sell advertising for the News-Tribune. As I embarked upon my new career as an advertising salesman, Eddie Chiles and the Western Company quickly became one of my prized accounts.

Eddie had been a friend of my father, Don Woodard, Sr. Eddie was from Itasca, Texas, and when he graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in petroleum engineering, he began a fledgling acidizing company that would evolve into the Western Company of North America. There is no better way to cement your status as an icon in the eyes of a teenage boy than to own a major league ball team.

The access he granted me to the world of the Western Company produced a high similar to that experienced by a high school pitcher given the unlikely opportunity to throw off a major league mound. Chiles is very busy so you have to get your business done in fifteen minutes.

When I left his office, always with a sale, I was walking on clouds. Laced Edge Horse Hair Ribbon. Gift certificates. The huge, white, two-story building with the rust horse mannequin was originally the home of White Front Western Store, established in The Fincher Family purchased the store in , and with only two different families owning the store, it has been in continuous operation for almost a century. Fincher's stocks a full line of western wear from infant to adults.

Included are hats, boots, jeans, shirts, blouses, dresses, and suits. We also have cowboy souvenirs, western gifts and rough stock riding equipment. Fincher's may be located in a popular tourist area, but real western families still continue to shop with us. Third and fourth generation customers enter our doors on a daily basis. The true reason for this loyalty is that there is no place else with the kind of personal attention and the knowledge of western products offered at Fincher's.

There are many other western stores, but how many of them have been serving customers the same way for a century, where things are done the old-fashioned way.