Category: Missouri
The Attack on the Embassy
Rocky Sickmann was in a position to change the course of U.S. history. If he had pulled the trigger on his weapon, perhaps the last…
Guarding the Embassy in Tehran
In 1979 Rocky Sickmann received his first assignment at a Marine Security Guard. He knew it could be a challenge, but perhaps he didn’t fully…
Joining the Marines
Rocky Sickmann grew up in a rural area not far from St. Louis. He had never ventured too far from home, but then he saw…
The Man Who Buys Museums
Did you ever imagine you might turn a collection into your own museum? This man has museums within museums. In fact, you might call him…
Harold Bell Wright
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Harold Bell Wright. He was one of the top author’s a century ago, selling books at an…
The World’s Largest Toy Museum
The parents of every young kids, and some old ones, know they love their toys. Tom Beck set out to put as many of those…
Tom Beck’s Collecting
What should you do with your time when you retire? Tom and Wendy Beck took an adventure that resulted in the largest collection of its…
10,000 Bottle of Soda Pop
This is the type of store you can get lost in. Not because the layout is a maze, but rather because you just don’t know…
Revival of the Dime Store
An average Wal-Mart SuperCenter has 142,000 items. Steve Hartley runs a store much smaller in size, yet carries over 75,000 items…and he’s competed and succeeded…
Dick’s Five and Ten
You might think Steve is operating a business that died long ago. After all, almost all the other similar stores have disappeared. But Steve is…
