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E.C. Leather

No social media? No website? No ecommerce? No problem. In fact, E.C. Leather in Tulsa, Oklahoma, prefers it this way. This small family-run business still likes to talk to people and their old-school formula seems to be working just fine.

While the business was founded in 1977, the foundation for E.C. Leather was set way earlier than that. Mark Eagan, president of E.C Leather, says that the backstory starts with his dad, Thomas L. (Lenny) Eagan, who was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, in 1913 and grew up working at A.C. Lawrence Tanning Co., once one of the largest

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