Lee Peterson

The Limited was the talk of the specialty retail industry.

I was a little stunned when I got off the plane for the interview as I had to walk across the runway.

There was no connectors or anything like that.

It was really sort of a small town.

Les took me to the limited space.

office at that time.

It was this black warehouse with white, the limited letters on the front, and this wonderful, you know, Teletubby-like landscape all around it.

And I thought, my God, this is more like it.

Well, we have our own

airport here, Rickenbacker Air Force Base.

And we started flying cargo planes loaded with merchandise from Hong Kong, which is our central key point, directly to Columbus, Ohio.

I mean, there was times when we did tests, executed a test on 100 units that we would get it within a

And, you know, just be way ahead of the game for any kind of crazy trend, color, fabric.

We were all about sense of urgency and speed.

And I mean, there was not a lot else to do in Columbus.

So devoting a lot of your attention to the work itself was pretty easy to do.

We had a quarterly briefing one time and we were doing so well.

Les said to us, you know, we're setting records.

And I remember HR had brought out balloons, you know, and we're blowing horns and one of those quarterly briefings.

And we were all so happy.