Uncle Riad born in 1932, he learned preparing drugs under the supervision of an expert pharmacology (drugs where prepared manually not like nowadays on the shelf ready to be sold).
In 1957 he joined the Internal Security Forces (the police) and at the same time he was working in the drug stores in the nights.
In 1964 he married to Hayat, his cousin (his mother's nephew).
In 1965 he was the responsible of the ISF drug store's till he left willingly the police in 1975 at the beginning o the Lebanese war.
During those 10 years he made his own business by deploying at first few Juke Box machines then about 200 of them in many entertainment centers and many other restaurants, from downtown to countryside via hotel and tourists sites.
However the war left its fingerprint obviously on everything!!!! All these places closed down and many other places have been burned down with all the machines.
On February 1998, he and his wife went for retirement in Maghdoushe. The last news say that Uncle Riad has added more rooms to his house and the picture of the old house of grandmother has changed a little.
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