Miles Separated, Garage Doors Without Finality
Seen as a journey of uselessness, our history has few bright spots to speak of and even fewer treasured memories to recall. Starting with our humble beginnings and ending with such things like the 1974 disaster, you will soon see our future, at least to alot of folks, was as likely as a trip to the sun on and an iceberg.
People had pretty much written us off from the word go. I mean who would have imagined that two children from Butte, Montana could start a business fabricating remote garage door openers in there own garage and today, own more real estate than Donald Trump. I would have never thought it myself, believe me. The beginning ten years, were not enjoyable by any any stretch of the imagination and the ensuing ten barely improved for that matter.
It wasn’t till the late 80’s that the Tarpman company took a giant up swing and Chamberlain wireless garage door openers had finally made the big time. Henry and myself were at a loss for words, when surprisingly it appeared people went crazy for these things.
That year we employed about 30 crews and began shipping over 600 units. Within the next two years, we had just over 200 crews, nation wide and were shipping an average of 400 units a month. You talk about chaos, forget it, we had more to do than we could handle. We began investing in 1994, mostly real estate, and by 2000 we were multi-millionaires, with investments coast to coast, and in 9 different countries, including the now off the plans city of Dubai.