New: Mid-City Supply was started by my dad, Sam New, and his friend Mel Cohn in 1947. They opened a plumbing store in an empty storefront in Elkhart, Indiana. Post WWII, everything was in short supply, so they would sell anything they could get their hands on. My mom and Mel’s wife would drive to Chicago and bring back as much as they possibly could, so we could sell it. In 1953, they relocated to a bigger location and became a true wholesale company. They stayed in that facility until 1972, when they moved into the building we’re in now. While we’ve added on to it numerous times, we’re still in the same building nearly 50 years later.