I had graduated from Plainview High School, gone to West Texas State University for a semester, then come home to Plainview to work at Gabriel's Department Store, until we were married. At Gabriel's I learned the shoe business from Dickie Perkins and Frank Gabriel.  I was trained by the best!!!

Then we moved to Lubbock for Clinton to finish school.  He worked several jobs, but one was at Christmastime at W.D. Wilkins. Where he actually bought me a beautiful dinner ring. I still cherish it today!

I went to work at Latham's Department Store as a shoe buyer's assistant.  I worked with several women, but oddly enough two of these other women were redheads.  So the shoe department had 3 redheads in control of the situation there.  It ran like clockwork.

I remember the beautiful shoes that we carried. I especially loved deLiso Debs brand, they were so feminine!

While Lew Dee was sales manager at KSEL, he called on one of his most loyal advertisers, Latham's Department Store. Latham's owner had recently named Diana Karvas as marketing director, and Lew was told he needed to talk to her.  Diana was the buyer for the junior lines of clothing and I always thouyght she was so cool!  I remember the first meetings of these two "famous" souls.  It seems they were meant to fall in love.  It was the talk of the store.

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Latham employee Jean Berry who has been in the store for eight years and Larry Winton, Tech sophomore, who is a part time member of the shoe salon staff cordially invited you to visit Latham's Shoe Salon at 34th and Flint and meet the new department manager Greg Threat.  Take advantage of the genuine saving in top quality Miss Constance pumps and other well known brands at Latham's Shoe Salon that include Red Cross, Socialite, Town Country, and Miss Wonderful.  Childrens shoes at Lathams include Red Goose, Alexis, and the popular P F Flyers.  For Men Lathams also offers the man in the family one of the best selections of Freeman Shoes. You'll always find plenty of parking in Flintwood Center at the corner of 34th and Flint.  Shop Lathams Department store in Southwest Lubbock for clothes for every member of the family.

Another fond memory...Jean Berry, my boss.  She was another redhead and we just clicked.  I loved working at Latham's.

It was a fun place to be.  My mother bought my dad a ring there from the jewelry counter and we used my discount.  I have that ring. It is special.

Working at Lathams was fun!

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Oh, I remember Dick Proctor.  We called him the Scout man.  He new everything about the Boy Scout gear.  Such a nice man.

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Latham's is where they loved to walk up behind me getting a drink from the water fountain and scare me.  I would scream, then cry.  They laughed!

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I worked in the shoe department.  Went to market and helped buy shoes. I loved shoes and I still do!  I can tell a lot about a person from their shoes.  It is called "shoe reading"...

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Fresh Find: If you have always wanted more hair...hair it is! You just wear it in a different place.

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