A business in Ville Platte specializing in small engine sales and service has propelled its way over the years and has been passed down through the generations. “You get to be with your family everyday,” said Vice President of Boco’s Chris Stromer. He remembers being there from a young age with his dad and grandfather and has watched it grow over the years. “I’ve always been here,” he said. “Back then it was one building. They’d drive the cars in, and they’d work on the cars. And they had mowing machines.”
“Then in 1973 once we had Honda for a while, dad built a separate shop in the back,” he added. We got out of the car business, and it was mowing machines, chain saws, and motorcycles. Then three-wheelers and four-wheelers came in; then it got bigger and bigger.”
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