{"id":4390,"date":"2018-05-08T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T16:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/fairmount-celebrates-60-years\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T10:36:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:36:51","slug":"fairmount-celebrates-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/fairmount-celebrates-60-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairmount Tire &#038; Rubber Celebrates 60 Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cTurning Little Black Hoops into Green Dollars\u201d at Fairmount Tire &amp; Rubber. That\u2019s what this stalwart dealer has been doing for 60 years now and Double Coin tires have been there for a good portion of the journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One of CMA\/Double Coin\u2019s oldest customers, Fairmount Tire &amp; Rubber recently <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jerry20and20Brad20Saunders.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry and Brad Saunders\" width=\"327\" height=\"218\" style=\"width: 327px; float: right; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;\">celebrated 60 years of doing great business in the L.A. area.&nbsp; Jerry Saunders, 75, started Fairmount with the help of his father and by using money given him at his Bar Mitzvah in March 1958.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Saunders and his son Brad Saunders (pictured above) have been a loyal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Double Coin<\/a> customer and friend to CMA and its employees for 21 of its 60 years.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Walt20and20Mike20at20Fairmount.jpg\" alt=\"Walt and Mike at Fairmount\" width=\"355\" height=\"237\" style=\"width: 355px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;\">To help celebrate and show our appreciation to the Fairmount family, CMA President Mike Yang, Senior V.P. of Sales Walt Weller and his wife Marjorie (pictured to left), and my wife Connie and myself (pictured below) attended the 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary party. It was held at the world renowned Beverly Hills Hilton inside the International Ballroom; the very same ballroom where the Golden Globes are held each year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rico20and20Connie20at20Fairmount.jpg\" alt=\"Rico and Connie at Fairmount\" width=\"335\" height=\"223\" style=\"width: 335px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">A fantastic meal and happy hour were followed by a personal concert by Jerry\u2019s best friend, Johnny Mathis of crooning fame. Jerry even sang a song on stage with Johnny, with the crowd cheering and laughing. The evening ended with dancing to music by a rockin\u2019 DJ with rapper \/ actor LL Cool J joining us on the dance floor.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was very pleased to hear that Jerry mentioned to Connie his appreciation for my honesty, ease to work with, and for selling a top-rate product like Double Coin. I&#8217;ve loved working with the Fairmount folks!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So \u201cturning little black hoops into green dollars to keep L.A. rolling.\u201d That is one of Jerry\u2019s favorite phrases along with . . . \u201cYou make them black and we\u2019ll make them green.\u201d The Fairmount team has certainly done that over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are greatly honored to have them as customers . . . and true friends. To run a successful business for 60 years is no small feat! We wish them many years of continued success in the years ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Check out more photos from the party below, and if you want to learn more about Double Coin tires, click on banner below:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>{{cta(&#8216;4bf5c911-554f-4855-8768-dd304a6c62a8&#8217;)}}<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ll20j20cool.jpg\" alt=\"ll j cool\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" style=\"width: 3600px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fairmount20candy.jpg\" alt=\"fairmount candy\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" style=\"width: 3600px;\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fairmount20dancing.jpg\" alt=\"fairmount dancing\" width=\"565\" height=\"377\" style=\"width: 565px;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fairmount20stage.jpg\" alt=\"fairmount stage\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" style=\"width: 3600px;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disculpa, pero esta entrada est\u00e1 disponible s\u00f3lo en English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-testimonials"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}