2011 is a big year for us. In 1936, Elmer (Bill) Jones began the business by selling marketing signs to dry cleaners. He first opened with a small building on Christina Ave. on the southside of Chicago. In 1968 he moved to a larger facility in Skokie where we remained for 41 years. We are now located in Elk Grove Village near O'Hare Airport. 75 years after Mr. Jones opened shop, we are the biggest Preservation Box manufacturer serving the industry in the world. We have the largest, most comprehensive line available. We have many new exciting things for the coming year. Lets look back on 1936:
- Construction of the Hoover Dam was completed.
- In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Nazy Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann is convicted of kidnapping and killing Charles Lindbergh III and is executed in New Jersey.
- Italy annexes Ethiopia.
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is published.
- The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, marking the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history.
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt attends the dedication of Thomas Jefferson's head at Mount Rushmore.
- The first edition of Life Magazine is published.
It was also the birth year of ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK, BUDDY HOLLY, JOHN MCCAIN, ROBERT REDFORD, DENNIS HOPPER, ALAN ALDA, BURT REYNOLDS, URSULA ANDRESS, JOHN MADDEN, GLEN CAMPBELL, RUTH BUZZI, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, MARY TYLER MOORE, DICK CAVETT, MICHAEL LANDON AND BUDDY GUY.
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