The idea, when stated simply, doesn't exactly inspire scream "grocery empire." Yet that's just what became of the maritime-themed specialty market that Joe Coulombe first opened in 1967 in Pasadena, Calif. — which, in the decades that followed, blossomed into a web of hundreds of locations in dozens of states.
On Friday, more than three decades after he retired from the chain that still bears his name, Coulombe died in Pasadena at the age of 89. The company confirmed his death to NPR in an email Saturday.
-------------------------------- We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
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I’m there every week or two. Cheese, wine, ciabatta rolls, frozen veggies, shrimp, and seasonal specialties like fresh Brussels sprouts on the stalk around Thanksgiving.
I love TJ’s.
-------------------------------- We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
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Posts: 37921 | Location: Somewhere in the middle | Registered: 19 January 2010
