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Addison Floral celebrates 50 years serving Addison community
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Addison Floral marked its 50th anniversary this October. Owner Larry Bolden recounted starting in a high-school greenhouse program, training at Chicago Floral Arts and keeping local customers through decades of change, from strip-mall days to online ordering.
Addison Floral marked its 50th anniversary in October with customers and family gathering at the shop in JC Plaza.
Owner Larry Bolden traced the shop’s roots to his time in high school horticulture in 1968 and subsequent training, saying he took design classes at Chicago Floral Arts in Wabash before opening a florist with a partner in Addison in October 1975. “I was in high school, '68, and was looking for a work program,” Bolden recalled, describing how the greenhouse work and later courses…
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