Jim Olsztynski reflects on the industry's progress in the past 20 years.
Remember the good old days when making money was easy and everyone put plumbers on a pedestal? If you do, you're hallucinating.
Twenty years ago, March 1984, PM published its first edition. I was editor at the time and recall a PHC industry landscape even more troubled than nowadays. Two years later, PM published the first installment of our “History of Plumbing” series that would span 10 years and involve extensive research into not only plumbing history, but that of our industry's trade associations and other institutions.