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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.

Kempins has previously shared with us the Holiday Inn story, which you can find at our Americanstories.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 Kempins.

I don't know if you all remember back when they had the trampoline 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, it 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, oh, get out here.

Just, they go just having some fun.

And so I think within a week, some kid had bounced something down and went through the plate glass wonder.

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