Pat Armbrust doesn’t know the brand of vehicle Clarence Armbrust cranked up to haul his plumbing tools after he started the family business in Wheaton, Illinois. Such details tend to get lost over the course of 103 years. That’s how long since Clarence Armbrust opened the door to Armbrust Plumbing.
Pat Armbrust does know that the door to the business was at the Armbrust home in Wheaton, a western suburb of metropolitan Chicago. His great-grandfather operated the plumbing business from his home on Ohio Street for more than 30 years before moving the shop to a downtown Wheaton building in 1954.
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