Take an honest look at fundamental changes that affect your business.
It was the late 1960s. The country was undergoing massive changes. And a decade of urban unrest had changed the New York City I grew up in. My family business and home were centrally located in Rockaway, Queens, a summer resort town within New York City. My dad Irving and my Uncle Morty, his partner, were slowly losing their hard-earned business to this every widening epidemic.
Rockaway had once been a lovely little summer resort area located on the Atlantic Ocean along the western border of Long Island. As I was growing up, it was the premier destination for the heat-oppressed New Yorker seeking the cooling summer breezes from the ocean.