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[maggief]

“One thing that has changed for Gill and his wife, Susan Essoyan”

http://archives.starbulletin.com/2008/08/10/news/story03.html

PHOTOS COURTESY OBAMA FOR AMERICA
Barack Obama is shown as a tot in the 1960s, in the arms of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.
Strong women led Obama

The senator was raised by a mom and grandmother with pioneering spirits

STORY SUMMARY »

At his homecoming rally Friday, Barack Obama paid tribute to his late mother, a single mom who sacrificed to ensure he received the best education. His next stop was to visit his 85-year-old grandmother.

These two strong women each were pioneers in their fields and helped shape the presidential candidate’s outlook on life. “Like his mother, Barry is a pragmatic idealist,” said Alice Dewey, an emeritus professor at the University of Hawaii and family friend. “If you have ideals and want to accomplish things, you’ve got to be pragmatic about it.”

PHOTOS COURTESY OBAMA FOR AMERICA
Obama is congratulated at his 1979 high school graduation by maternal grandmother Madelyn Payne Dunham.

By Susan Essoyan
sessoyan@starbulletin.com

[Brown Deer]

In fact, Pratt Furniture of Honolulu, Dunham’s alleged employer, never existed save for a filing in the business records held by the State of Hawaii.

Norma moved to Hawaii in 1968 and worked for the VA at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu for several years. She married Bob Pratt and moved to Kailua-Kona on the big island of Hawaii. They owned and operated several furniture stores, where she also did interior design. Norma was also a Realtor for Century21 in Hawaii.

[Brown Deer]

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/salisburypost/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=147460620

[Brown Deer]

http://hi.yalwa.com/ID_113117898/PRATTS-FANTASIA.html

[hoosiermama]

Thanks. Just got his book. Gonna check and see what he used aa a source should — be “interesting” to say the least

I remember reading at one point that these were not the big furniture stores we might think of carrying couches and bedroom sets. But small gifts shop types of places that carried small handmade end tables and accessories type of items. ( At the time i pictured folding chairs- stack tables in my mind) The type of place you’d find in tourist areas Can you find anything that would confirm that. It’s been too long and I’ve no idea where that idea came from

[Brown Deer]

[Brown Deer]

Son Buys Pratt Furniture Firm
The Spokesman-Review - Aug 1, 1940

[Brown Deer]

Now there are TWO Pratt Stores...
The Spokesman-Review - Jul 28, 1946 - full page AD

[maggief]

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FWIW

Valley Mall Wins Battle of the Bon — The Bon Marche is leaving downtown Yakima in 2002 to become ‘the centerpiece of the revitalization of the Valley Mall’
Yakima Herald-Republic (WA) - Saturday, July 15, 2000
Author: STOVER
By ED STOVER

YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC

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The Bon has been in its current location since late 1952, when Allied Stores Corp. purchased Simons Furniture and two department stores - Barnes-Woodin and Draper’s, as well as space used by Pratt Furniture - to establish The Bon Marche.

[Brown Deer]

This 1976 photo provided by the Oahuan, the yearbook of Punahou School, shows Barack Obama, in front row, fourth from right, posing with his ninth-grade class outside Punahou School.