Official Blog of Gallery Furniture's Mattress Mack of Houston, TX

00 Gets a Great Night's Sleep

Gallery Furniture has delighted thousands upon thousands of Texans over the past six years by providing them with a great night's sleep.  Customers just like you often say "The Gallery Furniture Tempur-Pedic sleep set changed my life forever - and for the better!  Now I sleep for eight hours without waking up every hour and I have more energy and a renewed zest for living - more than I ever had before!"  So it comes as no surprise that both the Gallery Furniture regular and adjustable Tempur-Pedic sleep systems are the most recommended item sold at Gallery Furniture by a 10-1 margin. 

Hardly a day goes by when a Gallery Furniture customer comes in with the same Tempur-Pedic tale: "Mack!  I was staying over at my in-law's and they had a Tempur-Pedic and it was the greatest night sleep I had in ages!" And so in they come, to get a great night's sleep on a Gallery Furniture Tempur-Pedic for themselves.

Recently, an old friend of Gallery Furniture's came in complaining of horrible back aches - a common ailment that many folks come to Gallery Furniture for a Tempur-Pedic sleep set to help alleviate.  Just who was this old friend?  Well, he is one of the most storied sports figures of Houston, and is none other than the legendary 00 himself - former Houston Oiler and Pro-Bowler Ken Burrough.   A great man and one of the great NFL wide receivers, Kenny led all wide receivers in the NFL with 1,063 yards in 1975 and now he proudly represents his alma mater, Texas Southern University, as a director of Community Relations.  In his new position of being an ambassador to his school, you can bet that Kenny is on his feet for the most of his work week, and his constant public appearances means he needs the energy and vitality that come with a great night's sleep on a Gallery Furniture Tempur-Pedic.

Kenny sat down with Gallery Furniture and explained his reason for wanting a Gallery Furniture Tempur-Pedic Rhapsody Sleep Set.  "I tell you what, let's be honest - over ten years of playing football you get beat up a bit and I knew that Mack, who is a great family friend, and his people would find me the perfect Tempur-Pedic, and that's exactly what they did.  I got busy working and kept putting it off, but that was a bad move.  You need to take care of your back, that's one of the most important areas to keep in good health.  So, I came in for my Gallery Furniture Tempur-Pedic." 

Kenny has a speaking engagement later this evening for some of Houston's young football athletes where he was going to do some motivational speaking, and so we'll have to deliver and set-up his Gallery Furniture Tempur-Pedic a little bit later, but rest assured that the Gallery Furniture delivery team will set-up, install, and have ready his Gallery Furniture Rhapsody Tempur-Pedic fast, fast, fast.  Almost as fast as Kenny's legendary 4.3 football speed (at 6'4 and 230 lbs, no less).

How Sweet the Cougar Victory, How Delicious the Food, How Awesome the TV!

      

Every red-blooded Texan loves football, and everyone loves a hometown team.  So when the chance came to help the students of the University of Houston so they could be a part of the action when UH hosted the Texas Tech Red Raiders this past Saturday, Gallery Furniture - the world's greatest furniture store - stepped up to the line of scrimmage and got involved.  Turns out that the University of Houston's ticket office had a challenge that any university athletic department likes to have but finds difficult to get through - tons of demand to get in, not enough tickets to give out.  Gallery Furniture is Houston's leader in solving all kinds of problems, and instead of furniture, Gallery Furniture delivered food, fun, and a HUGE LCD TV!

   

You see, Gallery Furniture decided to offer up some free food in the form of BBQ ribs, burgers, sausage, hot dogs, and some corn along with a HUGE LCDTV on a  GoVision truck - a huge 9' high x 16' high Daktronics LCD television that broadcast the University of Houston matchup against Tech within the Red Lot at the corner of Scott and Wheeler - right in the heart of tailgate alley. 

  

The board's brightness could be seen from as far as the top deck of Robertson Stadium, and the students and alumni and guests that didn't have a chance at a ticket enjoyed some great Texas football at the Gallery Furniture Official Cougar Watch Party.  Gallery Furniture is more than just the world;s greatest furniture store - Gallery Furniture knows how to tailgate.  As the game played, and the emotional rollercoaster that played out on the grid iron reverberated in the cheers, gasps, and outcries of the tailgaters in the crowd, Gallery Furniture helped to create a fun, safe, and festive atmosphere for the enjoyment of all.  Whether you were an opposing Texas Tech Red Raider or a hometown University  of Houston Cougar, you were right there for every minute of one of the most exciting football games of the year.

   

Coach Joe Curl, who this year celebrates his 11th year at the helm of the University of Houston's Women's Basketball Team, kindly donated not just of his talented cooking efforts, but his world-famous Pitts-N-Spitts BBQ trailer to cook all the great food supplied by Gallery Furniture.  Working side by side with the Gallery Team, Coach Curl led the troops in feeding the massive horde of fans from both sides of this pigskin match.  Cougar and Raider alike tore into burgers, dogs, and ribs and cheered their team all the way until the clock reached zero - and what a sight it was.  The energy of the evening eclipsed anything the Gallery Furniture team had seen in some time - with one member of the crew saying "it reminded me of when the Astros played in the World Series - it was awesomely beautiful to be in the center of the energy and the experience."

Dropping by for some grub that evening and to talk shop with Joe Curl and the Gallery Furniture team was Assistant Athletic Director of Ticket Operations for the University of Houston, Mike Rea.  Along for the visit with Mike was Director of Ticket Operations for Texas Tech, Jarod Huddleston, who was excited to chow down on some delicious grub.  The energy of the tailgate crowd impressed Rea and Huddleston, who chose to watch part of the 3rd quarter at the Gallery Furniture tailgate party and were impressed with the set-up.

 

Team effort.  That's what wins games, and that's what won the night for the University of Houston football team in a tense game whose down-to-the-wire win will go down in the annals of Houston history as a storied tale of a great passing game, smart defensive plays, and sound clock management.  Just like the Cougars, the Gallery Furniture team came together for the students, alumni, and guests with sound best practices in event management so that Raider fans and Cougar fans alike could enjoy a game near the epicenter of energy this past Saturday - the tailgate lot of Robertson Stadium, home of the mighty University of Houston Cougars.   And a few ticks after midnight into Sunday, the explosion of triumph could be felt throughout Houston, with the party starting at the Gallery Furniture University of Houston Cougar Watching Tailgate Event.

What Does the 100% Gallery Furniture Billboard Stand For?

New and improved.  Customers often call and e-mail with the question "Hey, what does the 100% Gallery Furniture mean on all the billboards we see all over Houston?"  Well, quite simply, it means that the original Gallery Furniture location Houstonians have come to know and love at 6006 I-45 North between Tidwell & Parker is back open 100% - 100 days after the devastating fire of May 21st.  Also, it stands for the 100,000 square feet of new and exciting furniture, home theater and electronics, all ready for your perusal and approval.

There's a lot more to the 100% than just being 100% open… you see, Gallery Furniture is 100% dedicated to delighting, astonishing, and serving you - the world's greatest home furniture customers - 100% of  the time.  Likewise, 100% of the merchandise is new and exciting with over 100 decorative ideas for you to enjoy in the new & 100% improved Gallery Furniture showroom at 6006 North Freeway.

Customers often say when seeing the new Gallery Furniture showroom "Wow, this is really nice, it's more spacious, and it's 100% better than the previous showroom!"  That's a delight to hear, because the tragedy of May 21 has been transformed into the world's most beautiful and unique furniture & electronics showroom.  Folks, you gotta see it to believe it.

Even more significant is that Gallery Furniture is 100% of the time - that's 24/7/365 - committed to providing you and your family with the best furniture, electronics, and home theater values in the world.  All while bringing you a 100% customer-pleasing buyer experience from the minute you walk in the door to when the Gallery Furniture world-class delivery team delivers and installs your furniture, mattress, and home theater sets flawlessly.

True, the 100% Gallery Furniture means a lot of things - the most important of all, though, is this: that 100% of the Gallery Furniture crew works harder than ever to serve, delight, excite, astonish, and amaze YOU, the world's greatest Gallery Furniture customers! 

This is How We Roll.

At Gallery Furniture, it's all about delighting customers. Period, paragraph, end of argument.  Just a few days ago, a gentleman came into Gallery Furniture at 6006 I-45 North between Tidwell and Parker with a most urgent request.  His wife had recently had open heart surgery at the Texas Medical Center and was returning to their home in The Woodlands that same afternoon.   During the outpatient release conference, the doctor had recommended that his wife sleep on a Tempur-Pedic adjustable mattress - this way her body can rest more comfortably and thus speed up the trip down the road of recovery.

Since this was happening in real-time, this thoughtful husband found his way to Gallery Furniture with an idea to surprise his wife with the world's greatest mattress - the Gallery Furniture Adjustable Tempur-Pedic Sleep Set.  Knowing that only one store in America could possibly fulfill his request is what drove this great customer to come to Gallery Furniture for an adjustable Tempur-Pedic.  He came in and said very matter-of-factly: "I gotta have this Tempur-Pedic adjustable bed and it needs to be in my home, installed, and set up in two hours before my wife arrives so I can surprise her!'

The Gallery Furniture crew sprang into high gear, and a phone call was made to the relocated Gallery Furniture warehouse in Sugarland (moved there due to the devastating fire of May 21st) - and it was communicated in no uncertain terms that this delivery to The Woodlands must be fully set-up in less than two hours.   Following in the footsteps of the famous 217 B.C. crossing of the Alps by Hannibal and his army, the warehouse replied simply "Sir, we will find a way or make the way."

Readers should keep in mind the distance from the Gallery Furniture Sugarland Warehouse to The Woodlands location is roughly 55 miles - and the Gallery Furniture warehouse team must not only load the Gallery Furniture Adjustable Tempur-Pedic sleep set into the truck, but the delivery team must set up and have this Allura model operational within two hours.   Well, wouldn't you know it - the highly customer-focused world-class Gallery Furniture delivery team made their goal by having the Allura Adjustable Tempur-Pedic set-up, installed, and ready for use within one hour and forty-five minutes.  As a matter of fact, the Gallery Furniture delivery crew passed the arriving couple on the way out the door, with a very happy husband and a lovely wife well on her road to recovery thanks to the miracle mattress that is the Gallery Furniture Tempur-Pedic.  All with fifteen minutes to spare.

This is how Gallery Furniture rolls.

Monkeys and Birds in a Furniture Store? Yes. Only at Gallery Furniture.

Many people have asked, "Why monkeys and birds in a furniture store?"

Gallery Furniture has always marched to the beat of its own drum, and many folks wonder why there are monkeys and birds in a furniture store?  Fact is, my wife Linda and I have always loved animals and for years have chosen to share this love of all of God's creatures with friends, family,  and the world's greatest customers - those that walk through the door of Gallery Furniture.

Leading our lovely flock is Mack the Hyacinth Macaw - who has been the number one bird at Gallery for over 10 years.   Over the years, Gallery Furniture has hosted the Three Amigos miniature horses, Post Oak the Grand Champion Steer, champion race horses, and other birds - yet Mack the Hyacinth Macaw has always held stage front and center.

Following the evening of the devastating fire of May 21st, Gallery Furniture received many inquiries from friends, and our family of customers who wanted to know how the birds - and the other beautiful animals - were and their condition following the fire.  A series of blogs showcasing the animals, including one of Post Oak the Champion Steer living in a ranchland paradise, made their way so that folks could see that the animals they grew to know and love were doing quite well.

My wife and I then decided that since folks loved the animals so much, we should look into bringing more of them into the Gallery Furniture family.  And While Linda was looking into acquiring some more birds she met Robert Williams and his then six-month old baby Brown-Tufted Capuchin monkey "Sasha".   Robert is a native Houstonian whose love for exotic animals started when he was sixteen and has culminated into a passion to rescue and re-home several capuchins, an older female chimpanzee, even two brown bears!  

The chance meeting of Linda and Robert was one of serendipity - turns out my wife has always loved monkeys herself, and she wanted to share the wonders of these delightful creatures with those who visited Gallery Furniture.   Wanting to bring a new a new and dynamic experience for the world's greatest customers, we hired Robert for his many years of experience working with birds, primates and the general public.

Since the 100% Grand Opening Celebration, Gallery Furniture is proud to have one of the few Toco Toucans born each year outside the wild to share with its customers.  There are also three Keelbilled and two Swainson's Toucans that came from expert breeder and bird caretaker Chad Jensen in San Diego, California.  Together, Robert and Linda have put together a collection of over seventeen different species of exotic birds, which includes Mack the Hyacinth Macaw, who serves as patriarch to this magnificent assortment of birds.

Naturally, all creatures big and small need care, and with the Gallery Furniture monkeys, this is no exception.  Both Linda and Robert are very busy with the six baby Gallery Monkeys and the two that belong to Robert.    With love, care, and helping hands, the expert care of these creatures allows Gallery Furniture to bring to the world's greatest customers an experience to watch these great creatures interact with one another  - from seeing them gleefully at play or sleeping peacefully - in the fabulous monkey habitat which made its debut Labor Day Weekend.

The Gallery Furniture Monkey troupe consists of Parker, a 4.5 month old female and Tidwell a 4.5 month old male, both Brown-Tufted Capuchins that were born at the Smokey Mountain Zoo in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.  Recently added to the troupe is Logan, a 3.5 month old male and Kate, a 10 week old female.  Logan's namesake is that of the selfless young man who walked into the Post Oak location after the fire and insisted on giving myself and the Gallery Furniture family of employees a bag of money he had been saving for an Apple iPod.  Since Logan's sister's name is Kate, it followed to reason that the we honor the family names.  Gallery Furniture also has a baby Brown-Tufted male and White Throat male that are currently looking for names in the "Name the Monkey" contest (as shown on the front page of GalleryFurniture.com). 

Sasha and Cody, also Capuchin monkeys, are Robert's own and they love to ham it up for the Gallery Furniture customers while in the monkey habitat - especially the male Cody who loves to swing and perform for all of the wonderful Gallery Furniture customers who stop by to watch and wave hello.

Gallery Furniture's animals are always there to bring a smile to the many visitors in the store every day of the week.   Likewise, they are also there to provide educational opportunities unlike any other. Gallery Furniture will be starting a school field trip program where classes of children can come to the store to learn about the animals in an up close and personal setting.   With Robert's expertise in education and instruction - he teaches at the University of Houston Downtown - Gallery Furniture will offer a unique look into these creatures for children who may never venture far out of an urban environment.

The Gallery Furniture animals will also continue the great Gallery Furniture tradition of charitable good will and helping others in need.  For example, two of the Gallery Furniture monkeys made a special appearance at Petapalooza to help raise money for the Houston Humane Society - a notable organization looking to help God's creatures who have no voice of their own.

So, why monkeys and birds in a furniture store?  Because Gallery Furniture is a one-of-a-kind furniture store.  Not only will Gallery Furniture save you money and deliver your furniture TODAY, Gallery Furniture will also bring you a store experience unlike any other in the world… TODAY.

Breathtakingly Big Screens, Big Sights, and Big Sounds TODAY.

Come out to see Gallery Furniture’s new 10 x 7 Big Screen TV in the new and improved Gallery Furniture located at 6006 I-45 North between Tidwell and Parker.  It’s a Texas fact – Gallery Furniture customers from all over Houston love  their college and pro football!  And what better way to see the BIG GAME then with your entire family while shopping at Gallery Furniture? 

While shopping, you can to enjoy gridiron greatness on the brilliant 10-foot by 7-foot Toshiba Big Screen TV while you enjoy great  values on furniture, home theater seating & electronics, hand-made and natural dyed rugs, and solid wood furniture all at Gallery Furniture’s stunningly beautiful  100,000 square foot showroom that is 100% open for you with hundreds of ways to save TODAY.

The exciting and vibrant new Gallery Furniture showroom is incredible, and here’s what other Gallery Furniture customers just like you have been saying about the newly-remodeled 100% open Gallery Furniture showroom:

“They opened a new showroom and it’s just breathtaking! Absolutely awesome!”

“It’s amazing, it’s huge, it’s big, and it’s brand new!  We’ve seen the monkeys they are adorable.  There is so much to do you could spend the day here!”

“Coming to Gallery Furniture was a really great experience they have beautiful rugs and we love to shop here!”

“It’s much more wide-open. It’s great! You’re actually able to see all of the furniture and see the way it would look in your house ... the way it’s designed now.”

Putting it simply, you  have gotta see it to believe it!  Take time to come out TODAY to the 100% open Gallery Furniture, at the address you know by heart – 6006 I-45 North between Tidwell & Parker – and let the newly remodeled showroom take  your breath away.

Oh, and one more thing.  There is a much better way to watch a big game on a big TV, and that better way can be found TODAY in the new Gallery Furniture showroom.  The best way to view your favorite college football rivalry or pro team is in your very own Gallery Furniture home theater room – surrounded by family, friends, great food, and great drinks!

Gallery Furniture Gets Groovy!

 

There's exciting and new furniture at Gallery Furniture - your one-stop Houston furniture shop for the latest and greatest in furniture, accessories, rugs, home theater and electronics, and all things… Groovy.  Gallery Furniture now carries something you won't find anywhere else - a line of solid wood furniture that retains so much of the wood's natural look and feel, it's like living art ready for your home TODAY.

 

Gallery Furniture's own Michael Burnes, a man instrumental in creating the beautiful vignettes and displays at 6006 I-45 North between Tidwell and Parker, was a key person in bringing this line manufactured by Groovy exclusively to Gallery Furniture.  "To be honest," Michael says, "I need to give credit to Jeremy Hunt for finding Groovy - he fell in love with it first and kept hounding me about it, so one day while at furniture market I was just minding my own business when this man introduced himself to me and it turned out he was the owner of Groovy Furniture.  I took him up on his offer to tour his space.  I have been working at Gallery Furniture for about 20 years, and one thing I learned is to always check everything out, you never know where the next idea will come from."

"When I walked into their company showroom, my first thought was how this furniture has its own niche, it's not easily categorized, and it really was just something that you could do almost anything with.  A lot of people may immediately look at it and think that Groovy Furniture belongs more in a ranch house or hill country setting - and believe me, it would work there - but you need to take it a step further.  These pieces easily blend into an urban loft or contemporary look, they can serve to add natural warmth to a contemporary look."

To prove his point, Michael points out a Groovy end table mixed with a highly contemporary couch on display at Gallery Furniture "You see how this just pops?  The eclectic look of the Groovy natural wood just fits anywhere, and it works and it lends life and depth to the whole look, and is a great accent piece or focal point in a contemporary setting!"

Today, Gallery Furniture is bringing in some dining table chairs, stools, some benches, and a host of other items from Groovy to go along with the beautiful wagon wheel benches, wagon wheel tables, wooden swings, and host of other types of furniture - all ready to go into your Houston home today.  Whether you have a ranch home you are decorating, a contemporary downtown Houston urban loft, or a cozy suburban setting, this gorgeous solid wood furniture from Gallery Furniture with its natural features fits in anywhere.  "This furniture is unique, it's gorgeous," adds Michael Burnes, "it's like taking a snapshot of nature - with thousands of different ways it can work in your home, it's beautiful, and you simply will not find this look anywhere except at Gallery Furniture."

Here's A Little Gallery Furniture Inside Information...

On September 3rd, when Gallery Furniture held the grand opening of Phase II of the Big Showroom at 6006 North Freeway - the great celebration of being 100% open - it came as no surprise that the Bill Stubbs inspirational rooms were not just stunningly perfect, but a huge hit.  Furniture, accessories, rugs, bed spreads, flooring, the art work and pictures, all combined in harmony to make the perfect home.  The effect was so powerful because Bill is a master at tying at everything together to create the perfect look - after all Bill, Stubbs is an artist in his own right.  This perfection then led Bill to make me promise him not to sell any of the floor models for at least three months so that the showroom would look brand new for some time to come. 

Well, no sooner had the Gallery Furniture showroom opened at 10:00 a.m. following the live broadcast of Houston's very own Great Day Houston with Deborah Duncan that a customer entered the inspirational showrooms at 10:30.  Well, she was so inspired by the work Bill Stubbs had done with the Gallery Furniture inspirational room that she turned to a salesperson and said "I want to buy all of this, just as it is shown in this room." 

I shamelessly told Bill Stubbs "Sorry, Bill, I gotta make the sale." 

The customer's order of Bill Stubbs' inspirational home was completely, flawlessly, and precisely delivered to the customer about to two days later.  At this point, Bill was scrambling to refurnish and redecorate the now empty inspirational home - and I am pleased to announce Bill had that Gallery Furniture inspirational home back to 100% in true Gallery Furniture fashion - fast, fast, fast.  I told Bill, "You know, your furniture and accessories look great in those rooms… but I gotta take care of the customer!"

Bill smiled.  I am pretty sure he understood.  After all, at Gallery Furniture, it's all about taking care of the customers - TODAY and every day.

[Photo, inset above. from left to right: Deborah Duncan, Bill Stubbs, Mattress Mack, and Michael Burnes]

The Power of Positive Thinking

I received a heartwarming letter from a local Houstonian who is an assistant principal and had attended the Realty Investment Club of Houston (RICH) workshop on Saturday September 5th, where she heard my speech on Bringing the Bright Sunny Future into the Present!  Given all that myself and the Gallery Furniture family have been through over the past year has really put so much into perspective - and I do enjoy sharing those experiences with fellow members of the Houston community.  Adversity can be overcome, good will always conquer evil, and proper planning prevents poor performance - these tenets are things that I feel all of us can believe in and as a result we can better not just ourselves, but the communities we live in.

In her letter she explained how, after years of feeling let down by government bureaucracy, she decided to stop and take stock of how positive a life she really does have.  Instead of complaining, this young woman decided to take the bull by the horns and start being positive and working harder!  She is now aware of just how lucky she is in her position, and instead of complaining or being frustrated while waiting on higher-ups to make change, she focuses on just how wonderful her students and school are.  She realizes the value of her position, and the positive impact she can bring to teachers and students alike in her role as assistant principal - in her letter she wrote "I get to be the one to help them and make a difference down the road in their lives!  Shame on me for forgetting that for a little while.  Even just a little while is too long when it comes to working with the lives of students!"

Pope John Paul II wrote in his famous Laborem exercens that "THROUGH WORK man must earn his daily bread and contribute to the continual advance of science and technology and, above all, to elevating unceasingly the cultural and moral level of the society within which he lives…" and no words ring more true than these when it comes to overcoming adversity.  When you're down, you focus and fight on, you work harder to make things better, and you put that axe to the grindstone and you contribute not just to your own well-being, but to the well-being of others around you.  In this way, you elevate the world.  I am truly happy to see this young Houstonian gain so much from my speech and that she took away a core belief of the Gallery Furniture family: "If it is to be, it is up to me" - and now she practices that at the school where she works serving to mold the future leaders of our community.

This young woman knows that to make it right at her school she will be the one to act, to make positive change, and to grow and nurture those kids.  Gallery Furniture salutes all those hardworking Houstonians who, day in and day out, look beyond the hard circumstances and take it upon themselves to work hard to raise themselves and their family up.  In this, they help to make the world a better place for all.  True change begins in the self, and with a commitment to a positive attitude and hard work.

A Visit from a USO Volunteer at Gallery Furniture

Don Thomas dropped by Gallery Furniture today, and took time to tell his Gallery Furniture story.  "I had to come in and tell Mack that I remembered all these years later when my son had just moved to Houston and boy, let me tell you, he was just starting out at his first real job and I went up and asked Mack if there was anything we could do for my boy - and wouldn't ya know it, he went ahead and waived the delivery fee.  That was good, because we did buy a lot of furniture and that was a very nice gesture Mack made.  My family - and my son - really appreciated it."

When asked what brought Mr. Thomas to Gallery Furniture today, he smiled and said "Well, of course, what so many people come here for - I need a quality mattress.  I had been putting it off, but recently when Mack had renovated the Bush Intercontinental Airport USO where I volunteer, I remembered to come on by."  You see, it turns out Mr. Thomas is a proud USO Volunteer, showing his true patriotic spirit by serving the service men and women in the armed forces by giving of his free time at the USO at Bush Intercontinental Airport.  USO centers, like the one decorated by Gallery Furniture at Bush Intercontinental Airport, give the soldiers a sense of home and a place they can unwind as they move from base to base and to and from the forward lines of conflict.  These USO centers are havens of rest, a place to reconnect with family using computer terminals, or just somewhere to catch some well-earned Zzz's as they wait for the next plane to come in.  Mr. Thomas is proud to volunteer at the Bush USO Center, and had this to add:

"I told Mack that the Bush Center was once just a basic USO center - but now, with everything Gallery Furniture has done for the USO Center at Bush, it is truly a world-class USO center.  I mean, wow, everything, the furniture, the sofas, the chairs are top notch, the quality office chairs [built to order by United Leather of Dallas, TX], the lamps, the artwork, everything - just is quality and wonderful.  It is put together well, looks beautiful, and the place is outstanding."

Mr. Thomas then suddenly remembered he had to back to his Gallery Furniture saleswoman Shala, who normally works with Gallery Furniture's hand-made and natural-dyed rugs, and he said "You know, I came in here for a mattress, and my son has a Gallery Furniture Tempur-Pedic, and I am thinking of learning more about them myself - my son raves about his, and he says wonderful things about his Tempur-Pedic, I need to try them out."  Shala then took Mr. Thomas over to Ceasar in the gorgeous Gallery Furniture Tempur-Pedic showroom and from there, Mr. Thomas expressed again his gratitude and thanks for Mattress Mack.

"I have to say, I have been coming here for years, and it meant so much to my family and me that first time we came in here for my son - I am happy to be back.  And a big thanks to everyone at Gallery Furniture for all the hard work you folks do for the USO, that means a lot for the troops!"

And thank you, Mr. Thomas, not just for being one of the world's greatest Gallery Furniture customers, but also for your continued support and volunteer work with the USO.