[Neil Winston]

As Hitapair says, it was mismanagement which seemed intended to drive customers away. In the mid-50's you could send an order and not see the product literally for months. A drive to Waseca would be better, but you had to plan for it to take all day to get them to find your feathers or whatever and sell them to you. It was best to place your order at the desk, go to lunch, and hope that you could pick it up several hours later.

When you got the Tenite plastic lures home and painted them with the Tenite-intended finish, you would often find a lump of plastic was all that was left, or maybe a lure that never dried. Fly-tying was a lot harder than it looked, and the fish callers never worked either; I finally gave up on Herter's entirely.

I still use the Bull Cook's knife to open shot bags and wonder if we'll ever really need apples to counter atomic radiation from Iran.

Neil