To: Fai Mao
"The founder was, I think, named Harold Earl Butt. So, it is literally Harry Butt’s grocery"
Pretty funny, but the store was founded by Florence. Her son, Howard Edward Butt, expanded it. During the '60s, he was said by locals to be the owner of a large, brown house on Ocean Drive in Corpus.
32 posted on
01/04/2016 6:42:10 PM PST by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
To: familyop
I thought HEB was founded in Kerrville?
Oh, well I guess the Harry part was just propaganda put out by Randall’s or Thom Thumb
34 posted on
01/04/2016 6:44:55 PM PST by
Fai Mao
(Just a tropical gardiner chatting with friends)
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