 Little shoe hospital. This is my granddad. This is my dad. These were the workers back in those days. And then this is another old picture. This is my granddad. This is my dad. This is my older brother. Italy, Mexico, Venezuela, down South America, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico. So all these guys are the old-timers. Little's originated by my grandfather, which was Lucian Little in 1915. He was a shoe salesman, and he shilled shoes out of a buggy in Morpha, Texas, where he got started. From the shoe salesman, he opened up a shoe store on the Commerce Street and North Floors. And from the shoe business, they started shoe repair. And from shoe repair, my dad learned through some of the repair people that we had how to make boots. And when he started making boots, then it revolved from a shoe store into a boot operation. This was my old champion. He was one of our fastest, highest quality workers ever seen. He's the only one in our shop ever worked by peace work, because he produced nothing but quality, and he worked by himself. No family. He lives right here next door. He'd go to work at six o'clock in the morning, and he'd quit when they closed the shop at six o'clock. Work a 12-hour day. You can only do so much without going excessively and overworking your people or not doing the detailed work that you used to do. And that's where you keep your quality. When you start exceeding that, you're losing your quality, and then you start thinking, well, let's make more boots because we can make more money. And you think of the money more than you do the quality of the boot. And that's why you don't see very many small custom houses, because most of them eventually either got bought out or decided to go into a larger production to be able to survive. And that's when you lose the quality. And most of all your big boot people, if you think about it today, Naconna, Judson, Lou Casey, you name it, they were all custom boot makers originally. But as time progressed, they got bought out by big corporations, and they just are doubling up and making thousands of boots a day. This is a little pride and joy of mine. This is the first boot that I've ever made. It's a two-exotic skin combination. It's a saltwater bottom with a full quill arches top, and it seemed up the back style. It's a one-piece top with a nice little crocodile trim, and it seemed up the back with a piece of crocodile. This is a full quill arches boot top and bottom, and it's a cowboy style. What makes it cowboy style? Well, this boot here is one seam down the back, and it's what we call a seam up the back. The cowboy is a four-piece. This is three-piece, this is four-piece, and we just give it a cowboy. And that's what we know as a four-piece boot. This is a very, very unique boot. It's a nice saltwater crocodile, and it's a matching set. And it's a cowboy style four-piece boots, and it's laced up the front and the back. It's laced up the scallop, and it's laced up the wings. This little jewel here starts off at $10,000. Besides that, we also do what we call a very, very fancy boot. This is kangaroo, and it's completely of oysters. I mean, kangaroo, and it's got all the different types of birds that we were able to develop, because the customer wanted this particular boot, and they wanted to call it the bird boot. And it's got every 10 birds that you can think of, and it took forever to do. But this is the seam up the back style, and we did that so that we'd have a big enough surface to be able to put everything to the customer wanted on it, and even have the red seam up the back. So this is one of our real flashy boots, but it's a beautiful boot. To make a good quality boot, you've got to have the great material. And with the great material, you have to have great quality craftsmen that can be able to do a boot to make it look exactly what you're trying to sell. It's a good, dress-western boot. You can find boots anywhere, but to make them look dressy and quality is the important thing. And that's where you've got to determine what a customer likes. If he doesn't like tightness, you'd better not make him tight because he just can't wear them. And then if you don't make him tight enough, a customer will say, well, God, I could have bought these in the shelf somewhere because they're just too damn loose. I like something to snug. So, and through the years, you learn which customer likes what. Once you've achieved what he likes, you stay right there with it, and that provides him to keep coming back. And it's a very difficult trade, very difficult trade. Like I said, two skins about this size. And this skin is a salt water, and it's a 39 centimeter skin. 39 centimeters is the measurement from here to here across the belly. And that's the way they size these things. So, when we buy a boot, we buy, I mean a skin, we buy two skins of the same size. And what we do is we cut a left one and a right one. So all of it, our boots that we sell custom to a customer are duplicate sets. The left and the right will be just about the same. This one here is actually sewing the boot counter to the boot top. A 3115 model, Singer model sewing machine. And we've had this for years. My dad bought them years ago and we've been having them redone. Putting new parts and it's been a, this thing, I think this machine is older than I am. The actual boot top, so that he can close them together. And this is the seam that goes in between the boot. He's sewing one side to hold it in place. He's cutting an end lay out of the top, blue top. And what we've got here is what we call a small guillotine. It's a needle that's been trimmed down like a little blade. And it's cut real tight. And instead of it stitching, it's cutting the leather a lot better than handwork. It just smooths it out and he just, he just follows the letter they prints on top. After it's stitched on the small machine to line it up, this is a heavy machine to make sure that it stays together. And then after he gets through that, he's going to hand trim it to smooth it out on the inside. This is, this is where after he does that and puts the ears on, he turns it. And then you'll see a boot top. There's your boot top. Box toe. I hate to put this because it's so sticky. The purpose of the, the pegging is to bind the outsole and insole together. And the reason they use pegs, because once it sets up, it goes into the leather and when the leather dries, it swells and holds it tight. If you put nails in it, eventually the nails get rusty and the hole gets bigger and then they fall out. But the wood peg never gives up and it just holds forever. The hammering into it. It's got it. This is working with people and we've done it all our life. We never have holes held in our life and we do it all by personal contacts. We strictly work with word of mouth because that's the way we've existed for all these years. You've never seen an ad of us in any magazine or anything trying to promote a boot sale. Altima are strictly word of mouth and that's the best business you can have. Because when people come in here, they know that they're looking for quality and that they're going to be provided quality. And I guess that's why we've succeeded for so many years. And I keep telling my workers that have been with me for all these years. I've got, I've got two workers that have been with me since for at least over 30 years there. And one of them's got 25. There's three of them that have been with me for quite a few years. And they're very qualified experienced people. And I keep telling them, I says, don't either one of you think of quitting until I retire. And they say, well, when are you going to retire? I says, well, y'all just keep working. I've got two of them that are working now four days a week. And they've been with me for so damn long. They're just, it seems like when I took over the business, they were here with me. And we've just continued working together. And we know each other so well now that we get mad at each other tomorrow is another day. Forget about what we did yesterday, you know, but it's just, it's been just been great. It's been a blessing to me to have people that have been with me for this long.