Simon's Western Wear & Uniform Outfitters, Albuquerque, NM. Simon Goldman, born in 1912, arrived in America from Russia in 1920. Simon grew up in Denver, and his wife Becky was from Evansville, Indiana. They were married in 1939, and moved to Albuquerque in 1940, Si bought a general store and converted it to western wear and uniforms and named the store Simon’s. It became a fixture on Central Avenue downtown – the place for New Mexicans to go for jeans, boots, and snap-button shirts and other western accessories. Simon’s Western Wear, with its iconic neon sign of a wrangler complete with horse and lasso, was sold years later to his employees, many of whom worked there for 30 years and more. It is now long gone.
I bought this rather nice floral carved holster from my old friend Charlie Domenici of Charlie's Sporting Goods a few years before Charlie died in 2018. It is stamped in oval "Simon's Albuquerque". I would be interested in learning who Simon contracted with to make his store holsters. The obvious choice would be Wally Wolfram, but I am willing to entertain other opinions.
I bought this rather nice floral carved holster from my old friend Charlie Domenici of Charlie's Sporting Goods a few years before Charlie died in 2018. It is stamped in oval "Simon's Albuquerque". I would be interested in learning who Simon contracted with to make his store holsters. The obvious choice would be Wally Wolfram, but I am willing to entertain other opinions.
