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Pro-Line (Is About) To Leave The Building
Is The Comer Cottrell Legacy More Than Just a Structure?
Ken Parish Perkins
 When Comer Cottrell was searching for a city in which his hair care company could take root he didn’t chose Dallas as much as it chose him. Cottrell was an audacious maverick with big dreams and bigger ideals and wanted to find a place where he could flourish, where his company could flourish, where the city could and would appreciate his worth.
Atlanta was on a rather short list, as was Chicago and St. Louis and Memphis and Birmingham, the capital city in the state where Cottrell was born, and where his sense of race was defined and molded.
Dallas in the 1980's was a unsophisticated city on the brink of sophistication, and Cottrell and his uncanny knack of staying ahead of the curve knew it would rise along with Pro-Line, which he started in Los Angeles in 1968 with $600 and a prayer.
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