we were tremendously excited about what was going on. I’m not sure we even had time to realize just how phenomenal our growth rate in the seventies would look on a chart years later: STORES SALES 1970 32 $ 31 million 1972 51 $ 78 million 1974 78 $ 168 million 1976 125 $ 340 million 1978 195 $ 678 million 1980 276 $ 1.2 billion
