Wednesday, january 25, 1978
Vendor. . .
Continued from page 1
A friend drove his truck home and it broke down two
blocks from home.
People smile when they think of Tony, with his top
button closed work shirt and wrinkled smile.
A student said when she opened the door for him once,
he plunked an apple in her hand and said, 'have an apple'
They're good for your cheeks'."
Another student said she talked to Tony often and sat
with him when he ate in the kitchen of her sorority house
She said that was why he gave her a small basket of straw
berries almost every day last spring.
But Tony was a businessman, his customers say.
Wilson said he charged about the same as a grocery
store for his produce, but was very reasonable.
"If he had something on his truck that seemed a little
high he'd say, Okay, you can have it for such and such'."
Nancy Schneider, Sigma Chi fraternity housemother,
said she never had a complaint about Tony.
She said if a head of lettuce was bad he would replace
it the next day. If he didn't have something she needed
on his truck, he would go and get it.
"Whenever I didn't buy much he'd say, 'how do you
expect me to get my wife a new pair of shoes,' and he was
a bachelor the whole time," she said.
Tony's sister, Mary Scolaro, said he always had a story
at night, and it was never the same one.
Johannes said he would tell her and the cooks one
joke, and the busboys a different one that she couldn't
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'Tony would tell the raunchiest stories and I'd accuse
him of making them up," said Gladys Hall, owner of a
downtown restaurant. "And he'd say yet, that's exactly
what I did, Mrs. Hall."
Wilson said people would laugh and say that Tony still
had the first nickel he ever made.
According to Hall, Tony always said he was saving
money to make up for what his father lost when the
banks closed during the depression.
In spite of Tony's joking pleas to "help a poor guy
out," Hall said she thought he was "quite well-fixed"
financially.
Mary said business was good in the winter, but summer
slowed trade down, Tony would work in his garden.
She said he would sell some vegetables from his garden,
but it was mainly a hobby for him.
"Mary said Tony only missed one day of work when I
put him in the hospital last June." But she said he
checked himself out and went back to work the next day.
Tony lived with his sister since their mother died in
1968.
The rest of the Italian family's seven children have left
Lincoln.
The story of the Scolaro's fruit business started when
Tony's father took a day off from his job at a shop,
said Johannes.
She said the story is that he bought a bunch of
bananas from a fruit vendor to take home to his seven
children. On the way home, when everyone asked what he
was going to do with all those bananas, he sold them all
and made more money than he would have in a whole day
of work.
No matter how the business started, Tony carried it on,
and pleasing his customers was his top priority.
"His business was his life," Wilson said. "That was
Tony."
"He died doing what he thought was important-taking
care of his customers," his sister reflected. Tony was 63.
Hall said she could see that Tony was dragging lately,"
but when she asked why he didn't retire he said, "My
customers don't need me, but I sure need them."
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