Curvoflite Stairs And Millwork is a third generation, seventy year old family business of hand-crafted circular and spiral stairs. The founder, Tom Walsh, Sr., started this woodworking business when during the depression of 1933, while working as a salesman for a similar company, his pay was reduced to $25.00 a week, then finally lost his job altogether as times got even harder. Our grandfather borrowed $500.00 from his in-laws, and started T. J. Walsh & Co., Inc., a millwork company that grew to over one hundred employees and took up a whole city block. Back then, they unloaded lumber from the nearby railroad tracks, there was no Home Depot to buy building materials from, so builders and new homeowners would come to a shop like ours for everything including doors, windows, closet poles, cabinetry, trim, etc. When Tom Walsh Jr., was all of ten years old, he got his start in his father''s mill by sweeping the floors after school. He worked his way up'' to being the co... [Detail]