Jr pitt hyde biography definition

When Barbara Hyde glides into the lobby of the Hyde Family Foundation, my attention is on a large Derek Fordjour painting, and I am contemplating — aloud — sticking my fingers into the art. Fordjour, who was raised in Memphis and attended Central High School, specializes in large works that use, instead of stretched canvases, layers of remnant material — pages from periodicals, shards of corrugated cardboard. After assembling the strata, Fordjour slices into them, making evident what lies beneath the surface: fluttered paper, swoops of glue and paint, sharp canyons of inviting texture. Hearing my ill-timed remark, Hyde exclaims, “Go ahead — touch it!” This painting (Double Horn Trot, ) is in her collection, after all, and she decides who has permission to sully its surface. (I do run my index finger along one jagged edge, but tentatively, feeling very much like I’m about to get in very big trouble.)

A few minutes later, sitting on a couch in Barbara’s office, overlooking Tom Lee Park and the Mississippi River beyond, I realize that the painting on the wall directly behind my head is a Carroll Cloar. I make a mental note not to lean back too abruptly and ram my cranium into the canvas (Joe Goodbody’s Ordeal, ). Considerations like these — touching one (museum-quality) painting, inadvertently smushing another — are foreign to most of us. But Pitt and Barbara Hyde are not most people. As we walk from the lobby to Barbara’s office, someone stops her to ask if she’s still tired. Tired from what? Oh, climbing Kilimanjaro, a feat she completed two weeks earlier with her son, Alex. Like I said: not most people.

If you’ve lived in Memphis for any length of time, or even paid attention to the city from afar, chances are that you’ve interacted with an amenity that bears the Hydes’ fingerprints. J.R. “Pitt” Hyde III, of course, is the founder of AutoZone, a Fortune company which today employs more tha

American automotive parts company

AutoZone, Inc. is an American retailer of aftermarketautomotive parts and accessories, the largest in the United States. Founded in , AutoZone has 7, stores across the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and the US Virgin Islands. AutoZone is based in Memphis, Tennessee.

History

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Originally a division of Memphis-based wholesale grocer Malone & Hyde, the company was known as Auto Shack. After the sale of the grocery operation to the Fleming Companies of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the name of the company was changed to AutoZone to better reflect the company focus just prior to the company going public.

On July 4, , the first store opened in Forrest City, Arkansas under the name of Auto Shack. Doc Crain was the store's first manager. Sales that first day totaled $

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In , Express Parts or VDP was implemented to get the customers hard to find parts by special ordering them through wholesalers. The total stores were 73 in 7 states.

In , the company became the first auto parts retailer to create a quality control program for its parts. Total stores were in 13 states.

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When Malcolm Pitt Hyde was born on 1 September , in Tennessee, United States, his father, Joseph Robert Hyde, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Richard Pitt, was He married Lucille Lipscomb Frey on 8 April , in Montgomery, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in United States in and Robertson, Tennessee, United States in He died on 27 October , in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Springfield, Robertson, Tennessee, United States.