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Adams Furniture: Furniture With A History
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Furniture ADAMS FURNITURE WITH A HISTORY by Diane Ciarloni
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Justin, 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 30 years or so. Then came the railroad, in 1938 and, today, it’s stuffed to the and the steam-powered locomotives rafters with a broad selection of quality, belched new life into the area. A post American-made furniture. office was granted in 1887, and the littletown-that-could became an established Owner Jim Smith was 16 when he started shipping and salvage location. Adams takes deepworking at the store in 1969. “I became Adams Furniture first seated pride in having a small percentage partner in 1979 appeared in 1929 as Adams Cash Store, 85 to 90-percent and bought out the previous owners in more of a general mercantile than American-made 1982,” he explained. anything else. The inventory. Adams’ market is shelves were stocked within a 15-mile with shoes, hardware, guns, hunting and radius of Justin, tapping into a 200,000 fishing equipment, and anything else a population. Most customers come from 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!
