GUNNBRUSH

The Michael Gunn Brush Co. began life in Brooklyn during the mid 1940's under the auspices of my Great Uncle Michael Gunn ,and was located in downtown Brooklyn on Atlantic Ave. Known throughout the area as manufacturer of many types of brushes ranging from pitch set "Tennis Drags" (large broom like brushes, used for grooming tennis courts ) where the bristles were dipped in a tar like glue ("pitch") wrapped with special twine, and then pushed into the appropriate hole in the block. Picture drilling hundreds of holes, then installing bristle by hand into those hundreds of holes… Shoe shine brushes , brooms, and static neutralizing strip brushes (still in continuous manufacture to this very day) as well as machine staple setting of rotary floor machine brushes. We still have a workbench made from that plywood, so tough that a nail bends when hammered into it! Dad still speaks of the difficulties encountered when trying to get bristle into those blocks... With the retirement of my father..

Also known as: Gunn Brush Co., Gunn Brush Co. Inc.

Primary location: Baldwin United States