Business Spotlight
Furniture ADAMS FURNITURE
WITH A HISTORY by Diane Ciarloni
J
ustin, TX, just feels like the perfect backdrop for a place like Adams Furniture. Justin was settled by 70 people in 1848. The plan was to create a Utopian society. Its failure was official one year later.
Not much came out of Justin for the next
The present, sprawling store was built
and the steam-powered locomotives
rafters with a broad selection of quality,
30 years or so. Then came the railroad, belched new life into the area. A post office was granted in 1887, and the
little-town-that-could
became an established shipping and
salvage location. Adams Furniture first appeared in 1929 as Adams Cash Store,
in 1938 and, today, it’s stuffed to the American-made furniture.
Adams takes deepseated pride in having 85 to 90-percent American-made inventory.
more of a general mercantile than
Owner Jim Smith was 16 when he started
working at the store in 1969. “I became
a small percentage partner in 1979
and bought out the previous owners in
1982,” he explained.
anything else. The shelves were stocked
Adams’ market is within a 15-mile
fishing equipment, and anything else a
population. Most customers come from
with shoes, hardware, guns, hunting and
radius of Justin, tapping into a 200,000
family living in North Texas might need.
word-of-mouth marketing.
Adams takes deep-seated pride in having 85 to 90-percent Americanmade inventory. According to Smith, this is based on four primary reasons. First, it helps the American economy and American craftsmen. Second, it offers superior quality. Third, the lack of dangerous chemicals makes it family safe. Fourth, there are many more options to avoid cookie-cutter designs. No furniture is sold online because pictures can be deceiving. Neither are prices posted online because of the broad choice of options. Adams stays current in styles by traveling to markets in North Carolina and Las Vegas. “We also have reps come to the store and show what they have available,” Jim said. When you think about it, that’s impressive for a town that failed after just one year!
940.648.3145 • ShopAdamsFurniture.com • 417 FM 156 • Justin, TX 76247
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