Floyd Paxton’s inventing gene came from his father, who designed a nail gun specifically to seal wooden boxes to ship. He did business with Washington’s apple farmers back when they used packing crates to dispatch fruit from our local orchards to grocers across the country.
By the 1950s, Floyd and his dad saw the future coming for them, says Floyd’s granddaughter, Stephanie Paxton-Jackson. “Farmers were going to the plastic bag to make things lighter.” Floyd’s solution would carve out, then dominate, a new industry. It also has an origin story worthy of Don Draper. On a flight home from Washington to California, Floyd was unable to finish his
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