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Paul was bar mitzvah at Congregation
Sharrey Zedek but is currently unaffil-
iated. His father came to Detroit right
after World War II. He owned a hat
store in Brooklyn, but that market was
saturated and he was looking for new
opportunities.
"My dad used to tell us about one of
our customers, a Chrysler executive,
who wouldn't approve a car design
unless there was enough room for him
to get in with his hat on. You look at
the photographs of street scenes from
that era and everyone was wearing a
hat. Even at ballgames;"
Henry's still has a
small core of
Jewish customers
who wouldn't think
of being caught
without a hat.
"It depends on
the time of year,"
says insurance man
David Friedman,
who shops at the
Southfield store. 'A
straw in summer,
felt when it gets
cold, a rain-repel-
lent model in
spring. I've been
buying from
Henry's ever since
they opened the
store out here.
They are very
polite and patient
people, and since
I'm in my 70s,
those are qualities I
appreciate."
But it wasn't JFK
alone who decapi-
tated the hat busi-
ness. "The industry
was being run by
the same tired old
men who kept
turning out the
same tired old stuff," said Wasserman.
"People lost interest. Then, in the '60s,
hairstyles changed and hats kind of
got in the way.
"We ran a factory upstairs for years,
renovating hats that were sent to us
from all across the United States. We
turned over 40,000 hats a year and
then sold them for $3.95. And made a
profit. That's a lost skill now You can't
find good hatters at any price and no
one even makes the equipment any-
more.
"But people who like to wear hats
really like hats. The price point is
$150 for a wide-brimmed fedora, our
bestselling model. A Borsalino now
sells for $265, and so they aren't nearly
the factor they used to be in the mar-
ket. Still, there are people who love
them; and if you looked in the closet
of a top executive at Compuware,
you'd find one there."
Unlike Ross, Wasserman is seeing
spillover from Compuware. He calls it,
in fact, "the most significant develop-
ment downtown for retailers in my
lifetime."
"I see good things happening here,"
he says. "I just renewed the lease on
this building. Henry's isn't going any-
where." ❑
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