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from Park Cities People July 2022

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386 County Road, Mineola

This picturesque East Texas ranch is only 90 miles from Dallas but feels a million miles away from the noise of the big city. This flawless property boasts 125 manicured acres, fully fenced, with a 4-acre lake. The property’s two-level custom-built modern farmhouse has four bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms, a three-car garage, a two-car carport, and a swimming pool with a hot tub. The kitchen features two islands and commercial-grade appliances. Other features include central HVAC, a library, an office, and his and her separate master baths with heated floors. A guest house offers two bedrooms and one bath with a full kitchen, living room, and attached carport. Venture outside, where you will find a full workshop with storage, a bathroom, central HVAC, and a car lift. Feed your hobbies with the basketball court or a horse barn complete with a bathroom, tack room, and four horse stables.

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Former Gap Employee Hunting for In-Store Playlists

By Rachel Snyder

rachel.snyder@peoplenewspapers.com

Michael Bise admittedly didn’t know much about the Gap or selling clothes.

“So, to be hired by Gap was not something I would have thought would happen,” he said.

But shortly after graduating from Texas A&M University in 1992, he got a job at the store in Highland Park Village, and one thing stuck with him – the music.

A curated soundtrack of music played as customers browsed, perhaps meant to serve as background noise, but it stuck with Bise, who’d been a DJ while in college.

“You could hear pop – the next song would be a dance song or alternative or hip hop, and the next one acid jazz (or) classic R&B,” he said. “(The Gap playlists) opened my horizons to more different kinds of things which made it very enjoyable.”

That first job in Highland Park Village led to a career with Gap that spanned 15 years. He went on to work at stores in NorthPark Center, the Galleria, and the Preston Oaks shopping center at Preston Road and Royal Lane, Bise said.

He’s since talked to hundreds of former Gap employees who share his love of the music.

“So, it’s really affected not just me, but thousands of people across the world had the same experience that this is something that really enhanced your work experience, but it also tied in specifically with Gap.”

Gap had hired AEI Music to curate the playlists used in its stores.

At the end of each month, Bise was allowed to take ones posted in the break rooms at the stores where he worked. Bise said the music reflected what was going on in the world outside the store. “In the early ‘90s, there was an explosion of different sounds … hip hop …

Hopefully, alternative, plus revivals maybe I’m of disco and doing a little new wave, so there was service, a big wide helping people find range there,” he said. “But some of their old you would friends, musical see things change.”friends, that they For exloved from when ample, after Sept. 11, they worked 2001, he said, at Gap. the December playlists Michael Bise “were very low key, very calm, whereas usually, holiday at Gap was very loud, sleigh bells ringing, everything, and these were very somber.” Bise has created a blog soliciting Gap playlists and tapes/ CDs from his time there – 1992 to 2006 – and posted the playlists he’d compiled. Bise enjoys hearing from others. “They’re re-experiencing things from their younger days when they were working at Gap,” he said. “Hopefully, maybe I’m doing a little service, helping people find some of their old friends, musical friends, that they loved from when they worked at Gap.” CHECK IT OUT Find Michael Bise’s blog – and listen to playlists – at gapplaylists.blogspot.com. Music lovers can also find the in-store playlists on Spotify by searching ‘mikebise’

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