Service to Others
The dawn of 1983 offered no promise for entrepreneurial success as Americans had been pummeled by successive decades of out-of-control government spending and disastrous economic policies. The economy was broken, scuttled by the federal government’s warring adventures in Vietnam and failed social engineering on the streets of America. Foregoing a restrictive gold backed currency, the political dollars flew out of Washington, causing massive runaway inflation for both food and energy and America’s first dependency on foreign oil. Just to survive, businesses were closing doors and reducing staff and those lacking the rogue entrepreneur gene, withered under the idea of starting a business in this storm. But a U.S. Army Sergeant (Ret) and his optimistic son saw an opportunity in a new innovative segment of the printing industry, referred to as screen printing.
Starting with a few mesh screens, a few tables and a mighty apparel press, (2) men set-off
to build a new business, then called New Era Graphics. The cutting-edge name described the novelty of screen printing at the time.
In apparel it was a tee-shirt for a cause, in signs it was a print for an election campaign and in the promotional industry a
#1 shaped ice scrapper with a business name attached. Years later and reflective of the family origins, this same business became
McGRAPHIX Advertising Products and now graciously works alongside U.S. Armed Forces around the world.
