Origin of the Skunkster??

[Gerberblades]

Passing through Idaho Falls on Sunday, and came across this...

 

[JohnTheTexican]

I seem to recall reading that that's the family business.

 

[Gerberblades]

Thats what I thought, just wasn't sure. Do they still own them?

 

[JohnTheTexican]

Here's what I remembered reading:

my dad was flight instructor in the navy air force. after ww2 he bought 13 stearman bi-planes and brought them to southern idaho for crop dusting. his name was farris and because he stayed sober the nite before the hard dusting jobs, he always dusted the hardest fields. his pilot war buddies started calling him "fearless farris". after too many deaths, he elected to go in to the gas business. he under sold the major brands and because they called him a stinker he took a skunk as his mascot and named his business "fearless farris stinker stations".

well dad died in 83 and left his business to the kids, we have 43 convenience stores in idaho and still fly his name. i just adopted "idahoskunk" cause it hooks up with my business and sounds a lot better than "idahosquirrel"

yup, true story and my wife is mrs. skunk!

http://www.stinker.com

It sounds to me like they're still in the family.

 

[JohnTheTexican]

It sounds to me like they're still in the family.

That's what it sounded like, anyway. But Skunk wrote that back in 2002. According to the stinky website:

In 2002 the Lind and Johnson families decided to retire and sell their family business. In November of that year, Local Boise businessman Charley Jones and long term Stinker employee Shawn Davis decided to form a partnership and purchase the Stinker Stores and related business interests of the Farris Lind family. WestPoint Transportation and Arrowrock Supply are affiliated businesses owned and managed by Stinker.