“He saw them through a lot of phases in their lives. “He felt like his customers were an extended family,” said his son Tomas Moore. Tom Moore and his brother Jim ran that store for more than 40 years, from about 1948 until 1989. Moore, in a new clothing store on San Francisco Street on the Plaza. He said the only action he saw was when he used a Thompson machine gun to detonate an errant mine that was floating toward his ship.Īfter the war, Tom Moore moved to Santa Fe to join an uncle, known as E.P. Moore enlisted in the Navy during World War II and became a radar operator. His father ran a clothing store in Laurel, where the younger Moore learned the retail business at 10 cents an hour. Moore was born in 1926 in Laurel, Neb., to T.I. “I feel very honored to be joining a pretty doggone distinguished group of people as a Living Treasure,” he said upon receiving that honor. He was named one of Santa Fe’s Living Treasures in 2015. “He was interested in who they were as people.”Īs a downtown businessman, Moore served as president of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce in the early 1960s, joined the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe and the Rotary Club of Santa Fe and became president and later executive director of the Menswear Retailers of America. “His customers weren’t just people who were going to come buy something at the store,” said Louis Padilla, a longtime employee of Moore’s. Tom Moore, a Santa Fe businessman whose clothing shop once served as one of the Plaza’s anchor stores, died Thursday at his home in Santa Fe. Longtime downtown businessman was Living Treasure
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