| A Family Touch |
Kris Story says she would have picked herself as the last person to join the family business a few years ago. Yet, today
she represents the third generation of the Story family to help run the venerable auto repair business on Burritt Street
in New Britain, Connecticut.
Story Brother's was started in 1950 by Alexander and Joseph Story as a one bay gas station and repair shop
with a bait and tackle store on the side. The business was built literally with the Story family hands and today the operation is a
multi-bay, high technology repair shop and towing service owned by the second generation of the family, Robert Story.
Kris Story said that her father Robert had always dreamed of having at least one of his three daughters enter the family
business. "He wanted one of us to work here, but never pushed us," she said. And of the three of us, I was the
least likely to come work here. "When I started , I was behind the counter and a lot of women felt better talking to
me, they felt more comfortable, and I learned a lot explaining to them what needed to be done to their cars," she
said.
Today, Kris is the gas department manager as well as handling purchasing, accounts payable and advertising for
Story Brother's.
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