The Anniston Star ● Monday, July 13, 2009
MONDAY RECORD YOUR GUIDE TO PUBLIC RECORDS AND VITAL STATISTICS IN CALHOUN COUNTY
OFF TO WORK ... WITH A FRAMER
Small business co-owner gets to do some of everything BY BILL EDWARDS bedwards@annistonstar.com
As a small business co-owner, David Prosser does everything from manage the books to cut the grass at Tyson Art & Frame on Henry Road in Anniston. But he also delves into the sentimental realm as he manufactures frames that hold customers’ memories, from the joyous to the tragic. Prosser owns the business along with his wife, Janet Tyson Prosser, whom he credits with having the greater artistic talent for translating customers’ wishes into threedimensional materials. “There is the element of helping a customer see what would work best with that picture,” he said. It was Janet’s parents, Floyd and Bertha Tyson, who began the business as an auto glass firm in 1946, soon expanding into picture framing. (A brother of Floyd, Lowell, started a different business that’s now known as Jim Tyson’s Model City Glass.) Prosser sees his job as combining both manufacturing and retail operations. Three employees, Nellie Champion, Betty Harris and Peg Tyler, assist him and his wife. Manufacturing includes cutting the glass that protects the picture, cutting the “sticks” from which a frame is formed and, if the project requires it, cutting the colored cardboard-like material, called a matte, which forms a visible border for the picture. Special types of matte and glass are available to prevent sun from causing the image to fade, he said. Please see WORK ❙ Page 3
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David Prosser pieces sides of a picture frame together at Tyson Art and Frame.
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