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WHALEN, Lyle. (Cresco, IA- ). President and owner of AIH Body Shop Supply Company. Whalen, owner and operator of the Island Princess excursion boat and Pelican Pier bar and restaurant, began repairing friends' cars at the age of sixteen. He established Whalen Body Rebuilders when he was eighteen and kept the company until about 1980. In 1973 he purchased AIH. Whalen has also owned The Bridge truck stop, Whalen's Car Wash, Ray's Bee-line auto alignment shop, and Iowa Bumper Rechroming-a Des Moines firm he merged with AIH. In 1990 AIH employed fifty people and served seven hundred customers within a 100-mile radius of Dubuque. | WHALEN, Lyle. (Cresco, IA- ). President and owner of AIH Body Shop Supply Company. Whalen, owner and operator of the Island Princess excursion boat and Pelican Pier bar and restaurant, began repairing friends' cars at the age of sixteen. He established Whalen Body Rebuilders when he was eighteen and kept the company until about 1980. In 1973 he purchased AIH. Whalen has also owned The Bridge truck stop, Whalen's Car Wash, Ray's Bee-line auto alignment shop, and Iowa Bumper Rechroming-a Des Moines firm he merged with AIH. In 1990 AIH employed fifty people and served seven hundred customers within a 100-mile radius of Dubuque. | ||
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Revision as of 04:17, 27 December 2008
WHALEN, Lyle. (Cresco, IA- ). President and owner of AIH Body Shop Supply Company. Whalen, owner and operator of the Island Princess excursion boat and Pelican Pier bar and restaurant, began repairing friends' cars at the age of sixteen. He established Whalen Body Rebuilders when he was eighteen and kept the company until about 1980. In 1973 he purchased AIH. Whalen has also owned The Bridge truck stop, Whalen's Car Wash, Ray's Bee-line auto alignment shop, and Iowa Bumper Rechroming-a Des Moines firm he merged with AIH. In 1990 AIH employed fifty people and served seven hundred customers within a 100-mile radius of Dubuque.