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For Love and Money: Portraits of Wisconsin Family Businesses by Carl Corey is a beautiful and moving book that captures the many facets of family businesses through photographs.

For those who like to look at expressions on faces, this collection offers a wide range, from worn but satisfied to hopeful and expectant. There is a story (or more) in every image. One that particularly touched me was the photograph of an owner whose business partner had died at work just a week or so before the picture.

One fun thing I particularly enjoyed was looking closely at all of the "things" each business requires in order to offer their products or services. Many of them have tools and supplies that likely are almost as old as the business itself, which to be in this book means at least 50 years old. One business, a shoe store, has stock dating back to the 1960s. That is a fascinating picture to study.

I think this will appeal not only to Wisconsin natives but to anyone who appreciates good photography that tells a story. It is also a wonderful archive of how businesses have lasted for decades, sometimes thriving and at other times simply surviving.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via LibraryThing.
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pomo58 | 1 weitere Rezension | Jun 7, 2016 |
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What an extraordinary photo album!

This book at once inspires good memories and strong wishes that, with its publication and the support of Michael Perry's audiences, as well as the example of the Hamerstroms saving the greater prairie chicken from extinction, there is still hope for saving Wisconsin's small family businesses.

From the front cover, with the son's sad eyes pictured next to his father's maybe still hopeful resigned smile, all will not be lost, right?

And, the search for truth begins smoothly with Carl Corey's beautiful capture of the Horse Loggers...

Many readers will want to learn what they can do now to slow or halt this demise and so will look more closely at the small business people in their own communities. Mine is Token Creek, Wisconsin.
The Toukanee, our original settlers, had a lot of Over-50-Years skills and possibly pottery
and baskets to share, but they totally disappeared except for stray arrowheads still found in upturned farmer's fields or along the creek or kame.

Compared with Token Creek, Kiel and Marinette appear as paradises for family business. Here, we offer two family owned bars, no churches, synagogues, or temples, no cheese factory (although long ago, Jake and Rose Riedwag did operate a tiny one in their basement at the Y intersection of Portage and Rattman Roads), no auto or any repair, no hardware, drugstore, pizza parlor, restaurant, grocery, variety store, diner, haircutters, or brewery.

Even the possible - a combination little coffee shop/bakery/newsstand/bookstore - is not even a gleam in anyone's eye. Nor a popcorn stand or a Little Library.

Nada, except for the annual 4th of July Token Creek Parade whose glory days faded with the absence of both a marching band and The Guy with The Train. We still have the one shot cannon and the always welcome soaking from the fire trucks.

I'm hoping that readers will think of ideas for compatible jump start business expansions to meet and beat the big booming box businesses.

Along those lines, what about: an Organic Gouda? More vegetarian rennet cheeses (like Carr Valley's micro ones)?
Non-leather boots and shoes? Organic root beer and craft sodas with matching lollipops?
Once a month or week Ethnic (Italian, Mexican, Asian...) Lunch (Bento Boxes!) and Nights at restaurants and diners? (The Cheese Factory at The Dells has become a destination.)
Artisan Cheese Doughnuts? Bakery Gluten-free and Organic breads and pastries?
Carved Wood animals from Logging?
Hardware store workshops in Organic Weed and Humane Pest Controls?

Towns and villages hosting SFB (Small Family Business) Nights (like urban Gallery Nights) or Festivals featuring free samples (Brass nails? Flavored ice? Hair products? Homemade maple fudge?...???),
with far ranging advertising to attract local and far away community residents and tourists.

For a future book, it would be welcome to have a paperback version for all the Wisconsin 4th graders who diligently study our state and who might well generate, not start-ups, but great ideas for Re-Starts not involving beer and bacon.
What we learn as kids often stays with us to influence and guide our adult decisions toward
the big box parking lots...or not. Students of all ages will be drawn in by the Horse Logger.

More family animals, like the German Shepherd who led the Up North Tomahawk bar owner
around with his jaws gently fixed on her hand, would surely spark attention.

If future editions could also include contacts to addresses, phone numbers, emails, websites, and updates, that would also be good news.
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