After years of producing goods and wears for family and friends, Ted Perez + Associates is proud to unveil their new storefront: THE GENERAL'S SURPLUS - a shop offering their fine line of products new and old.
Launching with the site is the "Chickasaw Collection" which includes 4 Tees based on establishments Ted supported during his stay in Chickasaw, Alabama in 1940.
READ THE FULL CHICKASAW STORY HERE
Below are previews and stories of the famed establishments Ted supported. Be sure to visit generalssurplus.com to view the details and purchase!
BIG AL'S
The first shingle foisted in revitalized Chickasaw, Big Al’s Fishing N’ Tackle was equal parts supply store and backwoods Agora. Alexi Rinskovich, a first generation Bohunk from the Ukraine, owned the convenience despite a pedestrian interest in, as he called it, ’the pastime of imitating a lump on a bog’. His true passion was working the land to produce the heartiest, liveliest crawlers for his county-wide famous ’Bag of Worms’.
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THE CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS
Local lore says the strict "hourly-only" rates at A.C. Slates’ tugboat themed motel The Captain’s Quarters was first imposed to discourage miscreants and squatters. Local lore also usually spews from the crusted holes of toothless, near-deaf fools. First opened after the repeal of Prohibition in 34, Slates "classy, escort-friendly gentleman’s retreat" became a favorite haunt of Ted’s for fairly obvious reasons.
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SLOPPY JO'S
Josephina Louise Ballou, to the familiar Mama Jo, lived her every day on Chickasaw Creek. Part Choctaw, she learned to cook at Pa’s two-burner and drink at Gram’s still. Ted’s first meal in pre-reconstruction Chickasaw was at her 18-seat diner.
"I don’t care if the sauce comes from her own tit - that Croque-monsieur is worth a man’s sense of sight." For the record, Mama Jo’s B’chamel called for milk from the teat of an actual, never figurative, heifer.
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THE DUKE OF CHICKASAW
"I was hitched to a 150 pound lump of Fool’s Gold." Luc "The Duke" Rickles never dreamt of owning Alabama’s first combo pawn brokerage and taxidermy workshop. He also never imagined being run out of his hometown Suwannee, Florida. But that’s exactly what happened when second wife Heather Goetz learned of his certain "perverse inclinations". Luc landed in Chickasaw and quietly started a new life "Hawking wares and stuffin’ hares... legally."