07/30/2024
Hi guys, Sherry & Bart here. I will be closing this FB page now that Joni Harlan is no longer there to maintain it and we no longer own the store. I wanted to say thank you to all of our employees, ex-employees, friends, family, customers and customers who were like family that supported us for 19 years.
After Bart & I served our country in the USAF, we lived in Los Angeles for 12 years. We moved back to Pleasanton in 2004 wanting a more simple life for us and our kids. We moved not knowing what type of business we were going to start. We just took a Leap of Faith and as always, God provided and the store basically fell in our lap.
Through the 19 years that we owned the store, we made so many friends and even best friends. People that will ALWAYS be a part of our lives. As our kids were growing up, we also watched your kids grow up. Some of you were just kids when we first met you and now you have kids of your own. Our customers were the best. We always tried to treat each and every one of you as family because without you we wouldn’t have been able to support our family.
We sponsored all of the sports programs, allowed the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts to setup fundraiser tables in front of the store. We bought Christmas wrap, books, etc from your kids because your kids were our kids. A couple of them were almost born in the store because mom’s needed their Dr. Pepper and snacks for the hospital.
We couldn’t have done any of this without all of you and more importantly all of our employees who were more like extended family. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!
We closed this chapter of our lives and look forward to the next chapter. We have faith that God will lead us in the right direction as he has always done. Please stay in touch and when we come back to Pleasanton to visit family and friends, I hope we will see you too.