Remember When… Open House 10 Years Ago

Posted on May 7, 2011 by in What's New

Here are Some Photos from the 2001 Factory Five Open House

Ten years ago, we celebrated our first Open House in our new (under construction) facility. We have some special surprises planned for this year’s event and hope you can join us on June 11th. Here are some pictures from June 2001!

We had just subdivided the property and bulldozers were not done with their work yet.

The parking lot was hard packed gravel.

Dave Smith 10 years ago and still getting bad hair cuts.

What to do with an empty building? Bring in a band!

Joe Camire with his son Jacob. Joe recently helped us with the Mitty Show and Jacob has grown up. Joe has his own Challenge Car these days.

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