The Anniston Star ● Monday, September 21, 2009
MONDAY RECORD YOUR GUIDE TO PUBLIC RECORDS AND VITAL STATISTICS IN CALHOUN COUNTY
OFF TO WORK ... WITH A FURNITURE STORE OWNER
Judy Pasley saw opportunity, took it BY BILL EDWARDS bedwards@annistonstar.com
Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans, goes the old aphorism, which helps explain why Judy Pasley goes off to work in her own furniture store on Noble Street. It’s called H&A New & Used Furniture, the letters representing the names of Pasley’s most important people in her life, her twin 11year-old daughters. An elementary school teacher by training, the 1976 graduate of Anniston High School owned a beauty and lingerie shop in Atlanta for 20 years, she said, before she had to return to Anniston to take care of her parents. To pay the bills, she opened a similar business, called “Bargain Mart,” next door to a used furniture and knick-knack shop called “The Stuff Shop.” But soon the woman who owned the business next door took ill and had to leave; at the same time, Pasley noted that her own nails-and-lingerie shop on north Noble Street wasn’t doing as well as she had hoped, while her neighbor’s seemed to be thriving. “I might as well pick up where she left off” was her thinking at the time, she said, so she closed down her beauty business and took charge of her neighbor’s merchandise. “I just started buying items, and people started buying them (from me),” she said. Overhead was high at Noble and 29th, so Please see WORK ❙ Page 3
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Judy Pasley puts some merchandise on a shelf at her furniture store, H&A New and Used Furniture, on Noble Street in Anniston.
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