About Us

Both Karen and Tony were born in Mamou, Louisiana.  Although they lived three miles from each other there, it was in Bridge City, Texas, where they formed their lifetime partnership over eighteen years ago -- both in business and in their personal lives.

Tony started in the furniture business by accident.  He was a commercial truck driver who was tired of living on the road and being away from home.  His uncle started a secondhand store in a small building about a block from the present location.  After about a month Tony's uncle was ready to move on to something else. 

Simultaneous to this occurrence, Tony was making what would be his last long haul as a trucker.  He had left California on his way to New York with a load.  In Chicago, he encountered ice and snow.  He was tired, lonely and wanted to be home.  After driving all night, he pulled into his destination in New York one Friday evening, but was told by the guard at the gate the facility would not open until Monday morning.  Nothing seemed further from Bridge City, Texas at that moment.

Tony checked into a local motel and slept for twenty-four hours, then spent the rest of the weekend making his plans.  Monday morning, he delivered his cargo and completed his final journey back to his roots.

He rebuilt his Peterbilt to move mobile homes, bought out his uncle's furniture store.   Cajun Corner Furniture and Cajun Corner Movers were born. 

A few years later, Karen moved to Bridge City and went to in a local restaurant.  Tony came in one day to trade two house jacks for fifty pounds of catfish and found Karen instead.  She went to work at the furniture store but he fired her because she was not selling well enough.  That was not the end of the story because they married a short time later and Karen became the top salesman for the company until Pabon's arrival many years later.

Tony and Karen built up their business in a small store with tin sheds covering their merchandise with no heat or air conditioning until the present location became available one hot south-Texas summer.  Within two weeks, the new place had been renovated by them and they made their move.

Even when Hurricane Rita removed the roof of the building in 2005, Karen and Tony did not cease operations.  They sold furniture out of a trailer powering the location with a generator and helped people move their belongings to storage because their homes had been damaged or destroyed.  They were the first business to commence operations after the storm.

They have built their business up from a secondhand store to a store that carries first-line merchandise.  The business is based on customer satisfaction with low overhead and reasonable prices for everyone. 

Although they truly value their local customers, they have the capability of being able to ship anywhere in the United States.