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The first picture is of the landfill area which Allen
Eden cleaned up and built his business Edens LTD. The
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second and third pictures are of Allen and his
employees in front of the present building, from which
the business sells a complete line of golf cars as well
as lawn and garden power equipment.
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About II years ago, Allen Eden of Anamosa
bought some land behind his home on Mechanic Street
near the Anamosa football field — land that was being
used ‘as a city land-fill, full of rocks and old chunks of
concrete.
After toiling many weeks to clean up the area, the
Edens built a small building. This was to be a “play
house" for Allen, o place for him to tinker with his
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From his tinkering to the present time, a very large
“part-time" business has evolved — Eden's LTD. Allen
and his wife, Judy, both work full-time at Rockwell Collins
Service Center here in Anamosa in addition to running
Eden's LTD.
In April of I977, they purchased a line of golf cars.
They now carry new Columbia (formerly Harley-
Davidson) golf cars. Also, they sell used golf cars and
repair all types of golf cars. Golf cars were their only
business until ‘I981, when they started selling outdoor
power equipment. In I983, they began repairing
starters, generators and alternators. They now carry
5,000 different stock numbers of parts from various
manufacturers and have over 100,000 different parts in
stock.
They represent 25 companies in starters and I8
companies in outdoor power equipment. They are
presently switching everything to a computer for better
inventory management.
Eden's LTD now employs three full-time
employees. In the summer, they have up to five additional
employees.
In the last ten years, the "play house" has
developed into five different buildings with over 6,900
sq. ft. of working area and ten times the amount of
business. That's a lot of "tinkering!"
201 Mechanic St. -— Anamosa
415