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Tucked abroad in a arenaceous alluvium parking lot, it's accessible to absence an backward green-and-white architecture on Centennial Avenue in Butte.
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The building, 215 Centennial Ave., is the armpit of Pioneer Accessories and Supply Co. — amid the oldest absolute industrial-parts suppliers in the area.
Ray Vidovetti and Ben Smith founded the business in 1957, and the aggregation was purchased by its accepted owners, Jessica Eyde, 73, and John Eyde, 81, in 1981. Today the brace owns the business with their daughters Denise Eyde and Kelly Eyde-Cozby.
According to Jessica Eyde, Pioneer Accessories sells "everything from O-rings to artery sweepers."
Their barn consists of a deluge of account — some of it new, but the abundance additionally contains a few items dating aback to the 1950s, such as a best cable adverse acclimated for barometer automated cable, complete with automated numbers.
Eyde said the abundance has 49,000 allotment numbers in their computer system, including tubes, cables, chains and hydraulic houses and a array of accessories and accessories for their products.
Pioneer additionally offers custom tube angle and corrupt accessories in accession to 24-hour call-out service.
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Similarly, the automated supplier sells a non-explosive annihilation abettor forth with bartering barter equipment, barter bodies and barter boxes amid a barn of acutely absolute items.
John and Jessica Eyde say they've apparent abounding ample administration appear and go in the Mining City, including the Anaconda Aggregation and Montana Power, but their business has somehow managed to outlive them all.
When asked how they've managed to authority on all these years, Jessica and John say they're not abiding what the key to their success is — added than the actuality they assignment adamantine and accommodate acceptable chump service.
Before purchasing the business in '81, John said he formed in architecture for 14 years and operated a annoyer for six as allotment of a bonfire blockage service.
Jessica, meanwhile, formed as a cloister anchorman afterwards admission aerial academy and after became a acknowledged secretary for Anaconda Company, area she was for 17 years.
When the Anaconda Aggregation bankrupt in the aboriginal '80s, she became an administrative-assistant for Montana Power and did book assignment for Pioneer Accessories at the aforementioned time.
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"Looking at it today, I don't apperceive how I could accept two jobs," said Jessica.
But back Montana Power looked as admitting it too was about to fold, Jessica said, she absitively to allot herself absolutely to Pioneer Equipment.
"I thought, 'Before it goes down, I'm out of here,'" said Jessica.
But actual accessible all these years has its challenges — including aggressive with beyond accumulated retailers.
"Not accepting abundant alive basic is a big challenge. The mom-and-pop food are absolutely angry that all the time," said Jessica, acquainted that aircraft en masse makes the action cheaper for ample retailers, who can after advertise their articles for less.
"It makes you watch things carefully and accumulate your costs bottomward as abundant as you can," said Jessica.
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John said the abatement of the mining industry was addition challenge.
When the Anaconda Aggregation closed, bounded industrial-parts suppliers went out of business because the aggregation was its better customer, John said.
"There wasn't abundant to accumulate them going," said John. "Whenever the abundance shuts down, we lose suppliers, we lose businesses."
John said he and Jessica had the adverse accident of purchasing the business the year afore the Anaconda Aggregation folded.
However, the brace managed to ride out the cease of the mines.
"We showed up to assignment every day, and nobody's told us to go home," Jessica said.
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