Magazine article featuring Thomas Molnar's shop

The magazine called 'TAILOR and MAN'S WEAR' presented my newly opened clothing shop, which was in the downtown of Parramatta, on Chuch Street 190, in an article with pictures. The shop was called TOM MILLER. (The beginning of the article can be found in the archive of Centropa with code number hutmo048) The caption under the lower picture reads: ?Tom Molnar and his younger brother John make a lucky team. Tom, who has a great experience in men's wear, initiates John step by step into the secrets of the trade.? There was a family in Sydney, who were my father's very distant relatives, Sandor Fulop and his wife Ilonka, and their daughters Yvette and Marta. This Marta married a man called Miklos Sved. Sved and Fulop were associates in a Men's Garment Factory. They treated me as their own child, I went there for dinner every evening. Somehow it happened that they were looking for a reliable man at the factory, and they told me to work there. My work was mainly quality control. I assigned the work for the home workers and I received it and checked how they had done it, and I paid them. I worked there for a while, then I met my first wife, Zsuzsi [Susan] Kaufmann. Her father, Joska Kaufmann also had a garment factory, and he was in great competition with the Sveds. The Sveds didn't approve of me going out with Kaufmann's daughter, so in the end I gave notice to them and I left. I went to work for Kaufmman. At that time I had already had some experience in manufacturing men's garment, so at Kaufmann's I became the sales manager. I sold the entire capacity of the factory, I went from shop to shop like an agent. In 1961 I broke up with Kaufmann for good and I left. I opened a clothing shop in Parramatta. This is a district of Sydney. I opened the shop from credit. The owner of the house also helped with not asking rent for the premises for a while. I did this for one and a half year but the shop didn't go well. I went back to Kaufmann's in 1963, but not to the factory; he had three shops and I managed one of the shops in the center of the city. I was there from 1963 until 1965, and in 1965 I left again, and went to work at a women's wear factory, where I was a production manager until 1968.

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