'Mattress Mack' Hosting Thanksgiving Feast At I-45 Store

HOUSTON, TX — If you’re hungry and have no place to be on Thanksgiving Day, rest assured that Houston’s Mattress Mack has a place for you at the table.

Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale, the man who for decades has been a fixture in the Houston business community and on local airwaves, announced Monday that Houstonians can come to the Gallery Furniture store on Interstate 45 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m for Thanksgiving with all the trimmings.

Mattress Mack made the announcement of the Thanksgiving Day Feast during a broadcast of Good Morning America, KTRK reported.

Long a local philanthropist in the Houston community, Mack made national headlines in August, when he opened up his stores aduring the height of Hurricane Harvey and nd took in dozens of displaced families, while housing some Army National Guard troops.

Families and Army National Guard personnel slept on beds, and ate their meals inside three of Mack’s Gallery Furniture stores.

Even as many of those families returned to their homes, Mack hosted relief drives at his three store locations collecting food, bottled water, and cleaning supplies for those who were, and still are, recovering.

In the weeks that followed, Mattress Mack also donated furniture to several families, and during the Houston Astros World Series run, promised customers who'd bought furniture at his store, that their purchases would be free if the Astros won the World Series.

That promise cost Mattress Mack $10 million.

In recent weeks there has been a push in the community to name s street for the Houston icon, and on Saturday, Mack served as the grand marshal for an impromptu Veterans Day Parade in southwest Houston.

Hundreds are expected to attend the Mattress Mack Feast on Thanksgiving Day.

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