One day's worth of work and $500 credit in materials from Acme Builders Inc.


Item Number: 128

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $2,000

Online Close: Mar 23, 2018 11:59 AM PDT

Bid History: 0 bids - Item Sold!

Description

Acme Builders Incorporated is a full service general contracting company. We take pride in attention to details. We get it right the first time.


Why Acme? Yes, Wile E. Coyote always bought Acme products. So did Bugs Bunny and the Pink Panther for that matter. The Three Stooges had businesses named Acme. It was a standard name for a generic amalgamated corporation that produced everything. We like the name because, yes, it's kind of fun. Those cartoons harkened back to an earlier time when ACME was a very popular business name. It was the nano/cyber of the late part of the industrial revolution in the early 1900s. It was a time when the language of print was more eloquent, and print advertising was a rapidly growing industry. It was the era of the big railroads, the invention of the airplane and public radio. The name became particularly popular in the '20s when phone books started being widely published, because yes, it's early in the alphabet. It was also the zenith of building Victorian style, and we really love Victorians.


Also, Acme is a popular company name in the many engineering and accounting textbooks. They often produce widgets. Acme comes directly from an Greek term meaning the top, the apex, the highest point, or the highest sustainable peak.

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Special Instructions

One carpenter and two helpers for a day's work, including a brief consultation with owner Paul Peczon and $500 in materials credit

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Acme Builders Incorporated