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- Bill Gamble: In White Lake, this was all woods, timber,
no open fields or anything here.
Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Company,
my great-grandpa Bissell was one of 'em.
They bought some timber, 20 miles deep,
and maybe 10 miles east and west.
They got the mill running early part of 1917.
They ran it for 30 years, day and night.
When the old company ran out of timber,
my dad and two partners decided they were going to
get into flooring in a big way, big time.
Basketball floors.
A lot of the NBA floors are outta White Lake.
To me, when I'm watching a ball game,
NBA, college, no matter what,
My eyes are focused more on the floor
than they are on the players.
That's kinda crazy, right?
[laughs]
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