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Family repair business stresses its core values
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Automotive Body Repair News
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June 1, 2008
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PADULA'S BODY SHOP
A family-owned business nestled in sieepy Tallmadge, Ohio, Padula's Body Shop Inc. has been quietly making noise turning out consistent collision repair work on everything from Rolls Royces to Nissans to Chevys for more than six decades. Angelo Padula welcomed his first customers in 1947 at a shop in nearby Akron, owning and operating the business from 1947 until he died in 1976, when his son, John Padula, began running the business. Padula then moved the business to Tallmadge, building a new shop with then state-of-the-art equipment in 1989.
Padula really can't remember a time when he didn't want to be in the body shop. "As a little kid, I knew I wanted to run the body ...
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