by jimmysbroadwaycom on April 12, 2011
We would like to welcome Amy, who is the newest member of our team. A native to Tucson, she is currently a student at Pima Community College. Her educational goals are to obtain a bachelors in business with a minor in communications, followed by a masters in counseling. Her ultimate career goal is to teach seminars on mental health in the workplace, and to run her own private counseling practice.
Her past times are cooking, reading, and traveling. In the past few years she has taken road trips to Canada, Florida, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. She is also actively involved in mentoring at Risk Youth and does public outreach for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
We are pleased to bring Amy on Board as she brings her administrative, organizational, and people skills to bear. She will be working under our service writers, Jack and Liza. Please join us in welcoming her.
by jimmysbroadwaycom on April 1, 2011
No, it’s not a joke. April 1, 1956 Jimmy’s Service opened its doors for business. Happy 55th Anniversary! Dave’s grandfather, James McDowell, started the business. Then when he retired, his son-in-law, Larry Shinkel, took the business over. Now that Larry has retired, his son, Dave, has taken over the business. Three generations later the business is still as customer friendly as the day it started. Our customers are like family to us.
We’d like to feature one of our oldest families that we have been serving since the day we opened on April 1, 1956. Carlton and Judith Wilder were one of Jimmy’s first customers. Their children, Johnny, and Joe Wilder are still customers of ours to this day. They have been hanging around Jimmy’s since they were kids. They would ride their bikes to get air in the tires. Then when Johnny worked in the middle of the night delivering papers, we gave him his own key to the station to fill up his truck in the middle of the night. He would unlock the pumps, fill up, write out a customer charge receipt, lock up and on the way he went. Johnny is involved in the Sam Hughes Neighborhood Association and Joe runs the Southwest Center over at the U of A, it produces the Desert Speaks program that looks at deserts around the world.
Joe just shared with me a story when he was around 4 or 5 years old. In the 50′s his parents car broke down west of town and Jimmy showed up Saturday evening and fixed the car. Servicing our customer needs has always been first priority at Jimmy’s.
We have many 2nd and 3rd generation customers that we cheerish as great friends. We have enjoyed serving you and your families during this time. We look forward to serving many more 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation customers over the years to come. Thank you all for supporting us over the past 55 years. We appreciate and have enjoyed the years with you.
From the 3rd generation of Jimmy’s,
Dave and Phyllis Shinkel
by jimmysbroadwaycom on March 21, 2011
We are sad to say that Kandice’s last day with us will be 3/31. She is moving to New Mexico to help her parents out. They are not well and this is a good time for her to be able to help them. We wish her well and hope that you can stop by to say goodbye to her in the next 2 weeks. Kandice just hit her one year anniversary with us on 3/15. She worked our parts department and worked along with Jack our service writer. She is a hard worker and will be missed. Good luck Kandice and keep in touch.
