About
Sam Gromowsky loves to tell the story of how he was kicked out of the cobbler’s trade school at Father Flanagan’s Boys Town. Ending up in the printing school, Sam discovered the trade that would become his life’s career. In 1964, Sam purchased a small duplicator press with money loaned to him by his father-in-law. Setting it up in the basement of the duplex he shared with his new wife, Mary, Sam planted the seeds of what would grow into Almar Printing. In the spring of 1966, the company began to blossom when Sam with no money, a two year old son, and a wife expecting their second son, moved his press to a ten feet by twelve feet room above a bar. Combining the name of his mother, Alice, with the name of his wife, Mary, Sam wrote “Almar Printing” on a shingle and opened the door of his one man operation to the public. In 1969, Sam and Mary moved Almar Printing from above the bar to a nearby first-floor, corner retail space, and then in the summer of 1980, to its present-day location (at