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Retail had always been in Joe Eichler’s blood. He grew up on Manhattan’s East Side, in and around Sutton Place, where his father and mother ran a small toy store. They did well enough at it to employ a live-in maid.
Joe always retained fond memories of the shop, his son, the late Ned Eichler, recounted in a series of interviews some years back.
Joe told of his mother selling illegal firecrackers to neighborhood kids from a stash concealed in her apron. “Joe told this story with a lot of joy,” Ned recalled.
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