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Northern California Nail Company is your one-stop-shop – We bid on jobs! Company History Regarding: A Family Owned Business. Francis H. Tankersley Sr. my father left Maisie Farms in 1953 a large Corporate Farm located south of Bakersfield California and moved to Pomona California. He went to work for a construction company that performed one function only, nailing floors, pitched roofs and flat roofs. The Nu Matic Nailing machine had just been invented in 1950 by a man named Bill Burnison with the help of a machinist Clyde Weems and was being mass-produced in early 1951-52. Dad was the third man to be hired by Bill Burnison who started the company called Nu Matic Nailing Company. The nailing machine (foot gun) was strapped to your foot, which was moved smoothly by your foot to place two nails in one-by solid sawn boards. It took a tremendous amount of foot, hand & eye coordination to install the nails through the one-by solid sawn boards that were installed at a 45-degree angle and make sure the nail was installed in the 2 x 4 receiving member below. The roofs were somewhat easier due to the fact the material was installed perpendicular to the roof rafters. In 1956 he leased several Nu Matic Nailers (foot guns) from Bill Burnison and started his own business, Right Way Nailing Company. In 1961 ITW Paslode came out with a handheld pneumatic tool that used clip-headed nails that took a large portion of the market share in the nailing business. In 1964 after losing twenty-five present of his clientele he sold the company and moved to Mitchell Oregon and bought a ranch on the John Day River. By 1967 he decided to get back in the nailing business due to General Contractors persistently calling him asking him to take care of their nailing issues on multiple projects. He worked for several of them in the Washington and Oregon areas hiring several employees including myself. United Structures Incorporated Located in Oakland was by far his Largest account. In 1969 he moved to San Jose California and started another company Tankersley Nailing. Regarding: Second Generation Family Owned Business. After my father started another nailing business in 1967, I worked for him in the summer of 1967 and 1968. I graduated from Mitchell High School in the spring of 1969 and went to work for him full time until I was drafted into the army in February of 1970, I served in Korea for three months and Vietnam for seven months. Since I did not serve enough time overseas after returning from Vietnam, I was stationed in Fort Sill Oklahoma. After applying for a three month early out in Fort Sill I received the paperwork but would not be able to receive employment benefits from the army so I took it and went to work for my father again. Jimmy W. Tankersley my younger brother graduated from Mitchell High School in the spring of 1972, he decided to go to Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton Oregon in the fall of 1972. After the fall term, he ran out of funds and went back to work for our father in San Jose California and worked for him there until the fall of 1974. He once again wanted to go back to college and decided to try Mount Hood Community College in Gresham Oregon. At the end of the fall term he once again ran out of funds, called our father in California and went to work for him full time. In1975 I was laid up with a broken foot on my birthday. Larry Hale was also celebrating his birthday with friends of ours. I received a call from them and decided to move back to Oregon while my foot was healing. Jerri Warren was buying a home at the time and offered me a place to stay. She had a 4-year-old daughter Tracy. In September of 1977 about two years later we were married and are still married today. We have two other children Francis H. Tankersley III born in Bend Oregon September 19, 1979 and Katherine Jo Tankersley born on July 19, 1982 in Livermore CA. Clyde J. Tankersley my youngest brother did not graduate from high school. He was living in Montana in 1976 when he called our father for work and went to work for him full time. In 1978 my father decided to move to Placerville California to downsize his business he had two employees working for him, his two brothers, Billy Tankersley and James Tankersley. He also wrote up an agreement with Jimmy and Clyde to lease and manage his San Jose business which they agreed to do. In 1979 Jimmy and Clyde were in Oregon Elk hunting and ask me to go to work for them I was unemployed at the time. Because the Federal Reserve was waging war on inflation in an effort to combat double-digit inflation that drove mortgage rates on homes to 18.45%. It seemed at the time nobody could even buy a job in Central Oregon, but developers were still building homes and warehouses in San Francisco and San Jose California. After several months working for them I approached both my brothers and made an offer to buy 33.3% of the business for $10,000.00 dollars, they both agreed. In 1980 a new President was elected and by the mid 1980's Home building, Apartments, Warehouses and Offices buildings were going up in most cities in California. By 1979 work had slowed down in the Sacramento, Auburn, Folsom, Roseville, Galt and Davis California, James Tankersley went to work for us in 1980, Billy Tankersley in 1981. Dick Seaton and Mary Seaton my brother-in-law and sister were living in Mitchell Oregon with their three daughters and son, Bobbie, Beckie, Shellie and Richard. Myself and my two brothers ask them to move to Tracy California and go to work for us and they decided to make the move in the fall of 1982. In 1985 work picked back up and my brother-in-law, my sister along with their 4 children move to Placerville and took over my Fathers business for one year, and started his own nailing company, Gold Coast Nailing. In 2003 they closed Gold Coast Nailing down they moved to Fresno California to be closer to their three daughters and grandchildren. In 1986 me and my brothers decided to purchase the business from our father he had leased to us for the past seven years, we made him an offer and he accepted. He had one more adventure in life he wanted to fulfill so he moved to Spray Oregon purchased a couple of houses along with a Bar and Restaurant. My father passed in January 25, 2001. In 1988 my brother Jimmy Tankersley decided he wanted out of the business he had unrecognizable differenced with his first wife. Jimmy and Sandy had two daughters and one son, Nicole, Justin and Lacy Tankersley, he left the business and moved to Spray Oregon. He later remarried a lady from Spray Oregon Zerita Powell who had a five-year-old son Josh Shawn Powell, which he later changed his name to Josh Ray Tankersley. In 1990 my youngest brother Clyde Tankersley also decided he wanted out of the business; he also went through a divorce with his first wife Robin Tankersley. Clyde and Robin had three sons, Clyde, Clayton, and Travis Tankersley; he wanted all assets of the business split 50% each. Inventory along with the accounts receivable and accounts payable, money in the general account. After agreeing to this everything was documented. All parts, tools, equipment, office desks, computers, fax machines. We split the accounts based on the customers' option of who best fit their needs best. After a few years he went out of business moved to Grants Pass Oregon to be around his three boys. 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