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    In 1912 Pittsburgh Plate Glass developed a metal store front construction system call Easyset. Its metal members were the Company's own design, manufactured for their exclusive use.

    The increasing popularity of this type of service, which combined important Company products, made it desirable to provide a more utilitarian and distinctive metal store front construction and identify it with a tried name that could be uniformly applied to both product and service. In 1934 the name "Pittco" was coined by contracting the names Pittsburgh and Company and in 1942 was copyrighted to cover the entire store front construction as Pittco Store Fronts.

    In 1934 a factory was established at Creighton, Pennsylvania for the fabrication of Pittco metal store front construction. This factory later was moved to Kokomo, Indiana, and became Works No. 19.

	Easyset System Metal Store Fronts from Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. started in 1912. View the 1925 Catalog ' J'.
	The early beginnings of Pittco Store Fronts started as a sketch on the back of an envelope. Review Some of the Early Pittco Drawings
	The merchandising of Pittco Store Fronts was one of the first and eminently successful programs of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Advertising Department which was established in 1934. Take a Close Up Look at a 1938 Pittco Ad