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It was called, “The Lillian Russell Group.” It had a very non-commercial finish: red mahogany. And they had a line which had been sold for longer than any other group of furniture. We went over there and looked at that with a possible eye of buying it. I was reminded, when we looked at Davis Cabinet over in Nashville, it was in trouble and on the way out of business. But there was just enough of a niche demand to support that plant. If any of our companies had had the finishes he had, they would have died on the market. INTERVIEWER: He had a remarkable business. No, he operated Craftique until they sold out to Pulaski within the last five years - or sometime or another, I guess. INTERVIEWER: What was his name that had …ĬAREY: Was he the same Best that ended up in Shelby? But they made a furniture factory out of it. And as you can imagine, those were strictly frame-type, very unsubstantial buildings, with no insulation and probably even no heating, because the fair was in September, or October, and didn’t require any heating. When the fair went out of business, Craftique acquired the old facilities of the Mebane Fair. I’m not exactly sure where they were originally, but when I was a child, one of the big events in the fall was the Mebane Fair. INTERVIEWER: What about Craftique? Were they there? But they were not there when I was there. White eventually acquired that plant in Hillsborough. Those were the only furniture companies in that area. There was a cabinet shop in Hillsborough, which White eventually acquired, after I left Hillsborough.

White was up in Mebane, which was 10 miles away. There wasn’t any real furniture in our area. Recessions don’t apply to government employees anymore.ĬAREY: Are any of your brothers or sisters in the furniture business? Since my father was a civil service employee, he did not lose any employment during the Depression, although he took cuts in pay, as even government employees did those days. We were of very modest means there were five children in the family. Of course, I think they were the finest parents in the world. INTERVIEWER: Anything that we ought to cover about your family?ĬAREY: They must have done a pretty good job. WALKER: No connection to the furniture industry at all. INTERVIEWER: How about any of your in-laws? And on both sides of the family, my grandparents were farmers. WALKER: No, my father was a rural mail carrier. INTERVIEWER: Was your family in furniture? WALKER: Yes, it was because when I was in college, the town was B-O-R-O. INTERVIEWER: When I was in college, it was B-O-R-O Street. WALKER: They changed that also, did they? INTERVIEWER: You know, that was a very large problem to change Hillsborough Street in Raleigh. Since I left there, they’ve decided to go back to the historic spelling of the word. WALKER: Born in Hillsborough, North Carolina, which at that time didn’t have a U-G-H on the end of it. WALKER Roy Briggs, Interviewer Charles Carey, Observer walker hickory furniture AMERICAN FURNITURE HALL OF FAME ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW FEBRUHICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA HOME OF HOWARD O.

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