This is a Mother's Day card my dad made for Mom sometime in the mid-1970s. (Her name was Linda, but he always called her "Line".) On the card, she's wearing her red Fisher's Big Wheel smock. It had a large white button pinned on the front that displayed her name and the caption "We're Big on People".
When Fisher's Big Wheel came to our hometown in 1972, we were all excited. It was our first big department store. We had a GC Murphy's and McCrory's, but those five and dime stores were small-fry compared to this.
It was right around my 11th birthday that Fisher's opened for business, and on Opening Day my mom took a couple of us kids to check it out. We walked out of there with Mom holding a job application.
That night at dinner, Mom told Dad about the store and how she was hoping to get a job there. Dad (in a half-kidding manner) said "Now Liney, no wife of mine is going to get a job..." and Mom said "Then go find one paying double so I don't have to!"
I swear to God I remember this--after the dishes were cleared, Mom was sitting at our kitchen table filling out her application, and where it said 'Age' (yep, back then they could ask for it) she drew an arrow pointing to the side and wrote "I believe women are like fine wines, we improve with age."
She showed it to Dad and asked what he thought and he said "Oh sure Line, they'll like that" and winked at me! I didn't say anything but thought "You blew it, Mom."
Apparently, Fishers liked it just fine--they offered her a job and she worked there for 25 years. Happy Mothers Day Mom, and to all the other awesome moms out there.
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