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1975
SOB's first shirts printed. -
Ron and former Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1993 celebrating the beginning of Graffiti Blasters.
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Monster trucks are OUTRAGEOUS!
1986
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One of the many bands we have printed for. Here is a vintage Urge Overkill shirt from back in the day.
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1991
World Series -
The Bulls used to win every year. This was one of those years.
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Slugo has become our mascot over the years. Originally clip art, we have adopted the angry guy to convey that "We Do The Tough Jobs!"
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Ron with George Carlin.
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RETRO!
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Beware of the Snackosaurus! Our first wrap around print!
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This Butthole Surfers shirt was for their 1987 album 'Locust Abortion Technician'.
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YUP! We did that!
Early eighties print.
Shirts Our Business was established in 1975 and was located at 2503 W. Devon Avenue in Chicago. At this location we served both retail and wholesale customers. For the retail customer we specialized in heat transfer applications of the popular TV, music and movie icons. We also customized T-shirts with names and numbers so Grandparents could tell their Grandchildren apart. For our Wholesale customers we would manufacture custom designs for any need in quantities of the same product.
By 1979 we out grew this space and moved to larger quarters at 2646 W. Devon Avenue. We continued with our retail Customer as we expanded more into the wholesale end of the business. Because of production needs we purchased our first automatic printing press that would do up to 6 colors. Wow, we had arrived!
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SOB design on a jean jacket. Classy.
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This flyer is from when we moved to our current location.
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Our entry in the THREADLEMANSS pine wood derby race put on by threadless.com in 2008
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We are located in Lincoln Square. Here is an old sign we found.
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1988
A football from one of our many charitable endeavors.
In 1986 we made our final move to our present location at 4949 N. Western Avenue. With this move and the expanded space, we discontinued our retail store front, and concentrated totally on wholesale. This is where we are today and over the years we have invested constantly in the modernization of our production and quality. Computers graphics have replaced the artist and the drawing board. The designs keep getting more challenging and difficult to achieve. We like the challenge!
Today we have around 30 employees, four of whom are still working together from our first location on Devon! Our employees are a close group consisting of staff hired through friends and relatives of employees, some of which have worked here for over 15 years. We all work hard to earn your business and put out a quality product.
We have been providing commercial clients in the USA with professional quality Silk-screening and embroidery for over 35 years! Give us a try we won't disappoint you!
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1985
Horse racing. -
Touch and Go Records allowed us to print for some awesome bands.
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Mucinex
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One of the many prints we do for the Chicago Police Department.
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2001 we started printing for threadless.com