McGrew Printing and Lithographing (sold)
McGrew Printing and Lithographing Company (1890 - c. 1990) was an American printing and lithographing firm based in Phoenix, Arizona. Opened on May 1, 1890, the original printing plant was the job printing department for the Arizona Republican. The print shop grew alongside the newspaper, moving several times around Phoenix between 1900 and 1930. Dan McGrew and Dr. Trevor Browne bought the printing company in 1945 and renamed it the McGrew Printing Company. Business continued to grow and another move to a larger building was necessary. In the 1950s McGrew Printing added offset printing to its offerings and changed its name to McGrew Printing and Lithographing Company. McGrew and Browne sold the company to Kenny Watson and Charles Langford in 1968 and Watson retired as president of the company in 1978. We have been able to find very little information concerning McGrew Printing following 1978, but we did uncover an job advertisement for a 'paste-up person' for McGrew Printing in Phoenix in April 1990.
Evolving post-war Phoenix.
Map of the City of Phoenix Arizona.
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This is a 1949 McGrew Commercial Printery city map of Phoenix, Arizona, distributed by the Lightning Moving and Warehouse Company. The map captures Phoenix during its post-World War II (1939 - 1945) boom, when a combination of commercially available air conditioning, military activity, and economic prosperity transformed the city. (more details)