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Northshore October 2025
  Gardner Sisk at Gardner's Salem facility.     Gardner Mattress has been using time-tested methods to craft beds in Salem for 80 years. By Jeanne O’Brien Coffey - photographs by Michael Basu   Not many people have to deal with sleeping customers for a living. But it’s something Kirk Forsyth, general manager of Gardner Mattress in Salem, has faced more than once—and can usually turn to his advantage. When one man fell asleep on a mattress in the corner of the store early one Sunday afternoon, Forsyth let him enjoy his snooze while other customers busily shopped around him&mdas
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