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Great Arrow Graphics once housed their production facility in the Pierce-Arrow Building. A small staff of five or six people, including Alan Friedman and his wife, Donna Massimo, ran the entire business.

Beginning with only six hand-silkscreened cards in 1984, Great Arrow Graphics grew into a premier greeting card company, with over a thousand designs in stock to date, 25 on site employees, and 70 artists worldwide. Great Arrow Graphics, now on Main Street in Buffalo, is truly a success story. And to this day, every single card is hand-silkscreened.

Great Arrow Graphics was a small startup in the late 70's, making hand-silkscreened wedding and birth announcements for their friends, “Just because we could," stated Friedman. "And that opened our eyes to the idea of cards--making small prints--because we had always done silkscreen prints, usually posters, or one-time prints, and we just really enjoyed the format. So we came up with a handful of little cards, abstract images that w…