Personal History and Playful Memories

important because we want to continue to grow this business we want to continue to maintain a legacy for the next generation and that support here is so so important so you're definitely not going to be moving from here anytime soon not the manufacturing you know we have a distribution point in Phoenix which is the western part of the United States uh and any manufacturing that's done vertically integrated uh will continue to come out of our Mexico facility but all the premium products and U.S made products and stuff that you love and the painters love that stays right here in New York right you know as we were moving from our facility in Brooklyn uh wait my father and grandfather um you know there was a lot of work that was done at night and on the weekends and I used to tag along with my father um and interestingly enough one day we were in the building and they were knocking down some walls and I kind of stayed behind and I picked up I don't know maybe I was four years old a sledgehammer and I kind of just threw it against the wall and this whole wall came crumbling down next to me it was maybe 14 feet high wasn't very wide and everyone ran from around the corner and was like couldn't believe it like I just was a little kid and I and I hit the wall once and you know those are the stories and my dad still tells and they're like scared you could imagine you know right the hell out of them um and then as a little kid I used to take those long roller sticks with a buddy of mine and it was like when Star Wars was out and we used to like pretend that they were swords and I mean foreign