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Flower Power Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s as a symbol
What’s this all about, Alfie?
This may well be one of the most
significant weeks that you spend
working for P&H Casters, unless of
course you’ve been working here
for over 49 years :-) or you intend
to be working here in 2069, when
you are roughly in your 80’s!
Milestone anniversaries only come photos.
along every 50 to 100 years or so,
and that means that this is the
ONE! The most significant date to
date for your company.
So I thought that it was important
that I would send out one last
issue of FORWARDMOTION as
originally conceived of by moi.
You can see what the new news
letter, which is actually the old
newsletter will look like on page 2.
We will still be having a newslet-
ter, actually, we’ll be having one
more often--monthly instead of
quarterly, but it will be a 1 to 2
pager with the highlights of the
past few weeks.
My plan was originally to dedicate
this last one to the anniversary,
and indeed it is. But as you may
have noticed from the photos
I’ve included here, in 1969, taking
photos of things actually required
walking around with a camera.
As if that weren’t burdensome
enough, after the photos were
taken, you had to take the roll
of passive resistance and non-violence ideology. It is rooted in the
opposition movement to the Vietnam War.
out of the camera and actual-
ly take it someplace to have it Paikos & Hicks Associates
developed! It took days to get the
photographs back.
What you got back was a bunch So for those among us who
of black and white photos that missed this photo in the Look
couldn’t even be edited! So if you Back at P&H video recently--P&H
overexposed, or got someone does not stand for Pray & Hustle,
with their eyes closed, you didn’t although some of you may think it
find out until after you paid dearly should :-)
for your potentially really crappy
The company was born of a part-
nership between George Paikos
Photography was certainly not and Jim Hicks. Originally, it wasn’t
one of those things that were a caster company at all---it sold
better BACK IN THE DAY. and distributed specialty fasteners
and metal hardware. It wasn’t until
But a lot of stuff sort of was. As the mid-70’s that P&H Associates
you’ll see in the pages that follow. became P&H Casters. That’s when
Jim Hicks began selling casters
Oh, and we’ll also be including the and wheels for shopping carts to
1 photo that got developed of our Supermarkets. Then came the
beloved P&H Associates. :-) introduction of the polyurethane
shopping cart wheel.
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