Middleton's Fish Building Supply & Me
Must’ve been the Summer of ’66. I was only 16 and I don’t even know how it happened but I was presented with an opportunity that was life-changing. My Dad, Hjalmar "Pete" Forsmo, worked at Fish Building Supply in Middleton. He’d been a carpenter with his own business for years followed by stints as an expediter with a couple of different builders in town. He was working at the pre-hung door plant. Back then Fish had its own print shop primarily producing the catalog that was always available as you walked in the door as well as other forms, brochures and mailers. It was a two-person shop and one was leaving — the press operator. And somehow my dad got me in to interview with Roger Fish for the job. I was 16. Prior Experience: Watching a press run. I’d been, for at least two years, a hanger-on at the Middleton Times Tribune where my sister Arlene worked and had started by sweeping floors and dumping trash just to have the chance to hang around....
