I tell it to everyone and anyone who comes in, and they're always impressed." He said four pool leagues have moved to his bar for the handcrafted tables. "You're paying a price, but it's for a piece of history.
"My patrons find them phenomenal," he said. Randy Reynolds, 56, of Gresham, who opened Cross Bank Saloon there in March, bought four tables from Golden West to add sophisticated flavor. Brostoski hopes to keep the company in the family and maintain all production on Johnson Creek.Įven with an international footprint, Golden West's local, mom-and-pop ethic and artisan approach have piqued the interest of many local players. The company grew into an independent manufacturing shop about 20 years before its relocation to Oregon.ĭon's son Robert Brostoski, 36, manages production for Golden West, and Don's grandkids offer a hand in the shop on occasion. When Brostoski was in his 20s, he started Golden West, which then specialized in small repairs and refurbishing antique pool tables. Moldenhauer and Brostoski met in junior high in the '50s in Southern California, where they both worked in Brostoski's father's pool shop and cleaned and repaired pool tables at local Elks clubs. We might lose some money, but we're not about to compromise our integrity." "Because once you start, even if it's for something really small, you end up sending more and more of it overseas. "We just don't mess with it," he said of offshore production. So big retailers turn to China and Vietnam to do the work," he said as he passed a wall sign that read "Import" with a diagonal strike through the word and "Made in the U.S.A." below the cross-out. "Pool tables are like a mathematical equation most people don't understand the geometrics involved. In what was once an aircraft manufacturing plant, with metal bridge cranes still hanging on roof trusses, Moldenhauer drifted through clouds of wood chips and battled the earsplitting grind of industrial sanding machines and wood saws to underscore the company's determined resistance to outsourcing. "Seeing the whole chain of command right in one office is a pretty amazing thing," Snyder said. He has been the company's wood turner, carving table legs on a spinning lathe, for four years. "I walked in at the right time," he said, adding that Golden West hired him in the shipping department shortly after he applied.
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