Just about all these pictures were taken on 6-1978

Most of the people in these pictures unfortunately
are no longer with us now. I will probably be saying
toodaloo in the near future myself. I wish I had put
this site up 20 years ago for these employees to
see and share it with there loved ones. Hopefully some
one or some organization will upload this site to
their server so the history of this manufacturer
will be seen by future generations.
Remember, Garcia Conolon was the largest
fishing rod manufacturer at one time.
They also gave a life time warranty on their rods.

                                                       Leo Lyman



Conolon Corporation

This picture was taken in the early 1970's
In it are office staff, supervisors, foremen and sales personal.
These are the people who made Garcia fishing rods famous.
A lot of these people were there at the beginning when the
company first started.

 

Emil DeSimone Garcia Corporate Officer on the left Howard Ashby President of Conolon Corp. on the right This photo was taken at the 1980 AFTMA Tackle Show	Bob Barry Vice President of Conolon Corp.
Les Wallace Controller	Office staff at Conolon Corp.
Nadine Harris Personnel Manager	Mary Coffman Howard Ashby's Secretary Marilyn Feeny Bob Barry's Secretary
Ernie McCord Accountant	Leo Lyman Engineer in Research & Development Set up Graphite and Boron facility, designed rods, solved manufacturing problems
Roger Ouilette Purchasing Agent	Milt Handler Supervisor for assembly, guide wrapping and guide finishing departments
Kenny Hutton Supervisor for blank and paint departments	Joe Fausto Blank production foreman
Oliver Parlette Supervisor over the Garcia snow ski division	Nurse Mary Edwards Back then work place injuries were a quite common occurrence
Wayne Cummings Our in house bass fishing pro	Jonece Rue in yellow Paint dipping foreman Brenda Skinner in middle Assistant foreman At Conolon we dipped and sprayed the blanks
May Waters on left Guide wrapping Foreman	Maimie Cooks on right Decal application foreman
Ray Bararo on left Handle assembly foreman Ed Rabino on right Machine maintenance, company truck driver	Alice Braim, Irene Harley, Donna Accamundo, Julie Young, ?
Loretta Smith in the middle Ferrule assembly foreman	Manny Rodriguez in the middle Stock room foreman
?, Stephanie Burton, Emma Rod repair office personnel	Sherri Drake Receptionist
Pat Frances Secretary to Dick Barnes VP of plant production	Employees 1 Rod Repair Dept.
Employees 2 Inspection Dept.	Employees 3
Billy Ashby on left Son of president Howard Ashby	Employees 4
Employees 5	Employees 6 Dippers in the paint department
Employees 7	Employees 8
Employees Blank Department 1	Employees Blank Department 2
Cloth Cutters Blank Department	Machine Maintenance Employees
Rod Repair Department Employees	Guide Wrapping Department Conolon also had a many wrappers working from home
This is a very small part of the assembly department	Manual guide wrapping station
Guide finishing department	Infrared guide finishing machine
Automatic guide wrapping room	Automatic guide wrapping machine
Cafeteria