(STJohnSource) - Frank Machover can remember the St. Thomas of 1951. His family came here from Bermuda when he was 12 years old. In short order, Isaac Machover was successfully operating a Main Street retail store offering high end goods like fine china, perfume and quality linens, and planning for the day when his son would join him in business.

But military service took Frank to the White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico, where he became a tech in the Army’s photography lab. After his hitch, his interest in photography moved him to Texas, where he managed a camera store.

Retail was in his blood.