Grant Winstead

They had...

After America living in one part, you had the Jewish people living in one part, you had the Polish people living in one part, and you had the Italians living in one part of the city.

And every now and then, you know, you were going to those neighborhoods, and they were nice, and they were really nice neighborhoods, but everybody had the same type of house that needed work done to them.

So you would see job signs, different job signs in different neighborhoods,

From different companies, different home improvement companies.

And but no, we were selling there.

We were selling windows, doors, kitchen, bathroom, basements, fences, whatever we could sell.

Well, what happened is I moved to Washington, D.C., and one of the owners in Pittsburgh had a friend down here that owned a supply company.

I think he had like seven or eight locations in Virginia here, and they were good friends back in Pittsburgh because the supply company owner had one in Pittsburgh.

And they were all Jewish-owned businesses.

And this is probably like the clique type of thing.

And so the guy left Pittsburgh.

He expanded down here.

And I came down here with him.

I was knocking on doors.

And one day, my closer got real sick.

Well, he couldn't close no more.

And I had to decide whether I wanted to stay in the business or did I want to know how to start selling?

Well, I was selling a little bit at the time, but money canvassing.

And I began to sell a little bit.