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are winding down the business and will closr for goodby summer’s end. “Wed won’t accept any equipmeng after July 3,” said Marion “Jet” Jackson, who owns the businesds with her brother, Bob. “That will give us a couple months to get everything turned around and get our partsx sent back tothe factory.” Located at 2500 Troy-Schenectadgy Road, Jackson’s Outdoor Salees has been a mainstay on the busy road sincew 1962 when Jet and Bob’ss father, Edward, got into the busineszs by accident. As the story goes, Edwars left his riding mowerr by the side of the road next to the housre one day to fetchmore gasoline.
A passer-by stopped to ask how much the machine Edward quoted aprice $100 more than he had paid himseldf for the state-of-the art He sold it, and then bought three more machinesx just like it. The business was born, and over the yearxs beat the odds stackedagainsyt family-owned companies. There were good years and leaner Gross sales havetopped $1 but in more recent yearws were $500,000 or Edward’s wife, Bea, took care of him and filled in when Bob worked full-time for his father. Jet pursuedr a career at the state Healthg Department but stayed involved in thefamily business. Aftef their father died in 1991, the brother and siste vowed to continue running it for10 years.
Now, 18 years later, they’ve decided the time has come to make a Sales have slowed because of the but Jetsaid that’s not the reason for the “I’m 60, my brother is 55,” she said. “It’ s time to retire.” They put the businesas up for sale in Januaruy and will continue considering purchaswe offers afterit closes. But the lawn mower business isn’t for and the need for displagy and storage has outgrown the size of the lot in theresidentiak area. If someone buys the business, it would have to be mover to adifferent location, Jet said. One of the hardestf parts about closing will be not seeinb their regularcustomers anymore.
“People come in here and sit down on the stoool and read the newspaper while we do somethinvfor them,” Jet said. “It’s very old