Northpoint Service Center Began With Toasters
A small business Q&A with Tom Willetts, Northpoint Service Center owner and Fox Point native.
For Tom Willetts, it all began with a toaster. What started as an obsession with taking things apart when he was just 6, blossomed into a love so strong for helping others and fixing things that it took him away from what he thought was his path in life and brought him to a whole new area. Willetts owns Northpoint Service Center in Fox Point, once known as a Mobil Station and Fox Point Service before that. In 1983, Willetts was just about to start graduate school when he found out that the then-Mobil Station was available. Willis put down the money to get the property and all the equipment in one shot in a bankruptcy auction. Willetts had a degree in psychology and a minor in communications and said wanted to be a school counselor or a …
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