Glass History 

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Opened the Nashville
Distributing Warehouse on June 9, 1930.

    A.G. Raymond served as the firs Nashville Distributing Warehouse mangaer until April 1937. He was succeeded by Harold B. Magee, who left to become the Cincinnati Manager in 1947. Other managers through the years were R.F. Barker, Felix T. Hughes, Fred C. Pace, and Harold J. Hertenstein. In 1959, Jack W. Williams became manager after stints in Dallas Texas and Jackson Tennessee.

    Nashville was a bustling location in 1960. In addition to being the only city slated to be a hub for six new federal highways, it also boasted being the home of some 500 manufacturing plants. Foremost among those was Ford's automotive glass plant.