This morning’s trivia on KOIT:
Q: What year did Williams/Sonoma publish it’s first mail-order catalog?
A: 1971
Back in 1958 Chuck Williams moved his little hardware-turned-cookware store from Sonoma to San Francisco. They now have over 560 stores in the US and Canada under the Williams/Sonoma, Pottery Barn and Pottery Barn Kids brands. I can’t even boil water, but I still love visiting W/S. I was there a couple of days ago, and the aroma of the spiced cider they were heating up in the store was unbeatable.
So now they say that the pilots flying the plane that went 150 miles past its destination, which happened to be Minneapolis, might have fallen asleep. Hey it happens to best of us. When I lived in the East Bay, I slept past my Walnut Creek BART stop all the time. I got to know the Pleasant Hill station pretty well.
Have you shopped for a major appliance lately? We’re in the market to replace the fridge Kim and I bought after we got married almost twenty years ago… long before Energy Star, and long before our two teenage eating machines came along. But geez, some of these cost more than a used car! Well we finally settled on one, and the salesperson handed me a voucher for 300 bucks worth of Omaha Steaks. That’s probably good for a couple for their fillets. Ah, but I won’t look a gift horse………Sorry, poor choice of words.
More on the riveting topic of major appliances. Up until very recently an Oklahoma woman was still using the pink, PINK, Maytag washer/dryer she got back in 1957. The set had been running perfectly until the door latch on the dryer broke the other day. She called Maytag and asked to have it repaired. Maytag went one better and offered to give her a brand NEW washer/dryer pair in exchange for allowing Maytag to put the old set in the Maytag Museum. She said sure, and the deal was done.
In other news, there’s a Maytag museum.
‘Hope you have a better weekend than THIS guy. Actually I’ll bet he’ll have a GREAT weekend because, it turns out, he’s OK.
