As CBS 8 celebrates 75-Years in San Diego, A.O. Reed is turning 110.
SAN DIEGO — The year 2024 is a big one for KFMB TV. Next month CBS 8 will celebrate being the first television station in San Diego and our 75th anniversary. The year was 1914 when the Reed Brothers moved from Chicago to San Diego to open a family plumbing store.
A.O. Reed is one of the most reputable mechanical contracting companies in the country. The company cuts and lays hundreds of miles of plumbing pipe every year that is installed in laboratories, hospitals, skyscrapers and theme parks.A.O. Reed is the only mechanical contractor based in San Diego that fabricates their own ductwork. Here is a short list of the company's thousands of completed projects:Steve showed us how his company for more than a century has helped build Southern California.
Over in plumbing and piping, Chuck Lawrence called A.O. Reed a generational job with grandfathers, their sons and now grandchildren working for the company."All working here, yeah, I've worked with some of the family members here who I have worked for their grandfather and I have seen their kids come up and now they are foreman working here too," said Chuck.
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