This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, including your stories.

Send them to Our American Stories.com. And now a story from Kemmins Wilson Jr.

Kemmins is a second-generation leader of their third-generation family investment company

that's out of Memphis, Tennessee, with the first generation being his dad, the founder

of Holiday Inn.

And by the way, we broadcast an hour south of Memphis

in Oxford, Mississippi, a beautiful small town

that's home to great writers like Faulkner and Grisham

and also the home to Ole Miss.

Kempens has previously shared with us

the Holiday Inn story, which you can find at our American Stories.com.

And today, he brings us some lighter stories about his father

and the unusual interactions that he's had with some pretty famous folks.

Here's Kempens.

I don't know if y'all remember back when they had the tramboline craze.

Well, he decided that he wanted to put a trampoline that was on ground level.

Our company here was manufacturing around trampoline.

It was about maybe four foot in diameter. And it had springs and you would just bounce on it.

And the idea was you would jog in place. So he put one in out on Lamar Avenue.

And at the time, our family company wrote the insurance for Hollands back in the early days when

you could do that and wasn't a conflict of interest so our head insurance guy said

hey Kimman's man you can't do this this is all kind of liability here he said I'll get

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