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Article: Sam Brenner: 57 Years in Business: Time can't alter downtown tailor.
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- Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
- Article date:
- March 3, 2007
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Byline: Debbie Blossom
Mar. 3--Sam Brenner still delights in selling the most ubiquitous of items in a man's wardrobe -- the navy blue jacket.
After 57 years as a clothing merchant, "The most challenging thing I have to do is figuring out what some customers want," Brenner says.
But solving that puzzle with tact and a sense of humor has kept 78-year-old Brenner in business, despite decades of change in the retail industry and the custom-made apparel operation his father founded in 1928.
That was the year Louis Max Brenner opened his tailor shop on the ground floor of the architecturally impressive Philtower Building at Fifth Street ...