Article: Grand Rapids Furniture Hall of Fame.(People News)

Article: Griffiths Inducted into Grand Rapids ...
Wood & Wood Products;  July 1, 2000 ;     404 words ... ... services at Stiles Machinery Inc. of Grand Rapids, MI, was inducted into the Grand Rapids Furniture Hall of Fame on May 4. This inaugural ceremony, sponsored by the Grand Rapids Area Furniture Manufacturers Assn. and ...

Article: Grand Rapids furniture firm builds Detroit ...
Michigan Citizen;  August 24, 2002 ;     648 words ... ... 24-2002 While Detroit firms beg for business, a Grand Rapids furniture manufacturer is increasing its profits by invading ... independent company formed through a partnership between Grand Rapids-based furniture maker Steelcase, New Jersey real ...

Article: Grand Rapids Furniture Designers ...
Wood & Wood Products;  March 1, 2001 ;     621 words ...The Grand Rapids Furniture Designers Association honored David C. Warren at the GRFDA holiday meeting for his family's 60 years of involvement with the ...

Article: Local History Department: Grand Rapids Public ...
Michigan Historical Review;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Council Oral History Collection * Grand Rapids Study Club (African-American ... Widdicomb Furniture Company * Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1887-1990 * Grand Rapids Furniture Manufacturers' Association ...

Article: Sex, lies and woodworkers. (labor unionism among furniture ...
Wood & Wood Products;  January 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Grand Rapids in 1900 was a bustling river town ... organize the furniture workers of Grand Rapids, despite his charismatic appeal and ... organizer and another union to lead Grand Rapids furniture workers in the Great 1911 Furniture ...

Article: Grand Rapids - grand furniture. (Michigan's ...
Wood & Wood Products;  January 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... developing community, infant Grand Rapids had several cabinetmaking shops ... business in what became the Grand Rapids furniture industry was a partnership of ... showroom-retail store in downtown Grand Rapids. The Powers and Ball factory ...

Article: Jeffrey D. Kleiman. Strike! How the Furniture Workers Strike of ...
Michigan Historical Review;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Workers Strike of 1911 Changed Grand Rapids. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards ... 95. The causes of the 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strike are familiar ... persuasively argues that the Grand Rapids furniture workers strike of 1911 led ...