10/30/2023 0 Comments Monster powercard turboCaltrans decided it needed to expand the 91 and 5 freeways and they needed the property where the Museum was located to accomplish their goals. In the late 1990s, Josh was the manager at the Kelly Paper store in Riverside, California.Īt the time we had no idea where were we going to relocate. And, as luck would have it, we needed space to put our collection of antique printing equipment until we found a new location and Kelly Paper in Riverside had some space available.ĭuring the next eight to nine years much of our equipment was stored at the Riverside facility. During that time Josh and I became friends. We even created a satellite museum, of sorts, at that Kelly Paper facility. Flash-forward 20-years and things had come full circle. Josh is now the Facilities Manager for Kelly Paper. This time it was Kelly Paper that was looking for a new location.ĭuring my conversation with Josh in the parking lot of the Museum, I learned that Kelly Paper had lost its lease on their Gardena, California location. Given the proximity of the Printing Museum in Carson to their Gardena store, Josh was scouting out a location next to the Museum. I did my best to help him with information about the building he was considering but, as I would learn two-weeks later, the location did not fit their needs. It was then that a light bulb went off in my head. Kelly Paper needed 8,000 square feet of space and we had 8,000 square feet of space in the rear building on the Museum’s property. The problem was our 8,000 square feet of space contained our printing and teaching lab along with numerous antique printing presses and related equipment. If you’ve never seen our warehouse, imagine 2,000 square feet of printing lab and 6,000 square feet of densely packed space. There were presses and equipment on pallets stacked on racks three levels high.Įven though the building was full of equipment, I offered the location to Josh. He accepted but let me know that they had two months to get out of the Gardena location. It was then that the gravity of the situation hit me. On one hand, it would be great to have an industry partner with daily foot traffic located on our property.
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