Short archival interview clip from a YouTube video in which Jim Penman and an interviewer discuss one of the very first Jim's Mowing flyers. Penman says the pictured flyer led to a stronger response and inspired the company logo; he dates the material to about 1986 and estimates he was about 34 then, and recalls working on lawn mowing and tree lopping (nearly injuring himself with a chainsaw).
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1986 (approx).
About 34.
So we found this one in the archives. We got this Jim's History thing we're going to do. We've got a heaps of stuff which we found last week, and this is the one we put online. And people loved it because it's almost like a rookie NBA card. First time coming to league.
Well, this was before it was franchised. This was when I was actually mowing lawn and I used to put this one out and people would re up and I would go. Some of my subbies might go too. That picture there, I found that when we put it on the leaflets, it actually got a better response. So that's what started the idea of the logo. And then when we launched the franchise, we just turned that basic image into a graphical form.
Do you remember how old you were here? What year this was?
1986, something like that.
86. That was before I was born, by.
A couple of years.
37 years.
I would have been like about 34 at the time. Tree pruning and lopping with the tree lopping. I must say, I was pretty bad at that. I almost killed myself with a chainsaw.
Look at the journey. It's a bit of history. We're going to frame that up. I'm going to do a couple of these things.
If I go back to that guy there and say what I know now.
