CLASSIC GRAPHICS -- Against the Odds

Classic Graphics' first customers were the priest that Gardner was rooming with at the time and Pitts' grandmother. But other clients soon followed. Gardner quit Piedmont and became Classic's first full-time employee at a salary of $100 per week. As sales climbed from $65,000 in 1983 to $250,000 in 1984, Pitts joined Gardner in a full-time capacity.