Charlie and Lisa Williams never cared for opening a storefront. Then their main competitor went out of business.

Morrow, 29, lives in a small apartment in Houston, and makes his living as a wedding videographer. But his true passion, passed down from his parents, is balloons. He has transformed that passion into ...

But if you ask people for memories of Party ... a permanent curve in them from doing all these balloons," says Jonathan Darcangelo, who joined Party City in Florida as a stocker in the late ...

Years later, I can still tie a balloon pretty fast, so I still have the technique down. SELYUKH: Darcangelo first got the job in high school. A lot of people did. Party City’s teenage employees gave ...