on a handshake and had a servant’s
heart,” Smith said. “It didn’t matter
whether he needed help or not, if
someone needed a job he would find
a place for him.”
When he died in 1998, his funeral
was full of people who all had a
Doren story about how much he had
helped lift them up at their lowest
point.
Doren also believed in the power
of advertising and produced magazines for his customers and wrote
articles about the pool business. He
was a student of the industry and
loved innovating. Doren was the first
pool builder to use PVC plumbing
and he purchased the first gunite rig
in Tarrant County in 1948.
“He made numerous modifications to the rigs and helped pool
building be more precise by use of
bond beams,” Smith said.
Third-generation-owner Barry
Pulliam assumed the in-ground business in 1985, the same year Mike
Clark joined the company. Doren
continued to install above-ground
pools until his death in 1998.
Barry was raised in the pool busi-
Horse-drawn buggies ç 1916
ness.
“The employees used to joke that
he had chlorine in his blood,” Smith
said. “He grew the company from 50
in-ground pools a year to over 625
pools in the ‘90s.”
Clark’s earliest recollection is
sitting on the floor of the new loca-
tion on Old Granbury Road calling
old customers for referrals. The office
furniture had not yet arrived and they
just jumped right in to work.
Clark has been witness to a lot
of changes in the company over the
years.
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