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CorbiN FLoWer SHoP

StArted oN A LeAP oF

FAitH … 58 YeArS AGo!

Owners say that although times, trends and the nature of the busi- it a day or not,” he admits. “i don’t know
how long it was before i ever really did
ness have changed, friendly customer service, and a passion for the anything. Nobody knew me really.”
job, are still the keys to building a lasting business
Johnny echoed that sentiment.
“it’s about like any business, when
PhotograPhy and story : you start you don’t know if you are going
MarK WhItE to make it or not,” he noted.
buddy kept at it with persistence,
hard work and long hours. It paid off.
n 1960, 22-year-old buddy Woods was Such were the beginnings of Corbin in 1963, rhoda, who had been work-
working at a finance company and not Flower Shop, which 58 years later the ing at Sterchi’s Furniture Company, quit
making a lot of money when he decid- couple is still running along with their her job in order to start working at the
ied to go into the flower business. son, Johnny Woods. flower shop where she has been ever
one night, he came home asked his For the first few years at the flower since.
wife, rhoda Woods, if she knew what he shop, buddy didn’t fare a lot better in today, the Woods family is some-
wanted to do. She asked him what. the flower business than he had in the fi- times serving customers who are the
“I said, ‘I am going into the flower nance business. third generation of their family shopping
business.’ i had done rented the building At that the time, he wasn’t even at Corbin Flower Shop.
before i told her that,” buddy said laugh- thinking about making it 58 years. rhoda credits good work for helping
ingly. “She said, ‘do what?’” “i didn’t know whether i would make the business grow to the point it is today.