By Russ Oechslin | Sioux City Journal correspondent | Posted: Sunday, August 16, 2009
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa — Less than two years after his ”retirement” as CEO at Pure Fishing, Tom Bedell is back in business — with a music business not unlike the one he started when he was a teenager. And, not unlike anything else the 59-year-old Bedell has done, he’s passionate about the effort.
The new enterprise, Two Old Hippies, began when a small guitar store, Great Divide Music, came up for sale earlier this year in Aspen, Colo. where Bedell and his wife, Molly, have a second home.
When Tom heard about the offering he didn’t hesitate in suggesting to his wife, ”Let’s do it!” Six months later they are already expanding the business.
As Molly explains, ”We scooped it up, brought it back to life and filled it with everything we love.”
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