Nice Painting By Famous Man Ed Weidner Travel Pan Am Hiawatha Chicago Milwaukee

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Nice Painting By Famous Man Ed Weidner Travel Pan Am Hiawatha Chicago Milwaukee:
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This is fine art by a professional and famous artist who started what is now a mega rich and famous company, WeidnerCA signage.
It\'s about 42 by 14 inches.
This is an original, one of a kind painting, not a print.
Painting features the man himself and his wife, an old Pan Am jumbo jet airliner 747, an old steam locomotive engine 4-4-2 Hiawatha streamlined and passenger cars. Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific CMSTP&P.
Features an ocean with sailboat, train on bridge, tour busses, and many fine details throughout.
The colors are better and more vibrant in person. My camera isnt that great.
Its a heavy piece with a thick sturdy frame. Some writing on the back by Mr. Weidner.
Edward Weidner (1921–2007) was an educator, public administration scholar and founder of the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay Weidner Center. Edward W. Weidner was born July 7, 1921, in Minneapolis, the second of two children of Lillian and Peter Weidner. He attended public schools and graduated from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis in 1939. His children enjoyed exposure to world cultures during their early years. Ed and Jean followed his education and public-service career to postings around the globe throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Edward W. Weidner began his distinguished academic career as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he also competed the M.A., and Ph.D. in political science, in 1946. He first pursued his interest in public administration in graduate school, when he worked as a research associate for the National Municipal League. He also did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin.
Career[edit]As an assistant professor at Minnesota, Dr. Weidner was assistant director of research in intergovernmental relations. He moved on to a one-year faculty post at UCLA and then to Michigan State University. There, over a period of 12 years beginning in 1950, he added activities in technical assistance, educational exchange, international development and administration, serving as director of the Governmental Research Bureau, chairman of the Department of Political Science, and director of the Institute of Research on Overseas Programs. His work brought him and his family to countries including Vietnam, where he was consultant on assistance needs to the Foreign Ops Administration, and Pakistan, consulting on rural development academies for the Ford Foundation.
His books included The World Role of Universities (McGraw-Hill, 1962). Technical Assistance in Public Administration Overseas (Public Administration Service, 1964), and Development Administration in Asia (Duke University Press, 1970).
In the early 1990s siblings Rick and Kathy Weidner saw the signs: that their small business needed better management than they could offer.
They were slowly taking over the business, Weidner Architectural Signage, from their father just as the recession was taking its toll on revenue. Rick Weidner knew his calling wasn\'t management and he wanted somebody experienced to take over so he could do what he does best: sell.
So in 1993 he convinced the company\'s board of directors to hire an outside consultant to help manage the company and three years ago they hired a full-time chief operating officer.
\"I wanted to be in sales,\" Rick Weidner says. \"I\'ve always been a poor manager and most of my management was reactionary to emergency problems. It was stressful.\"
In recent years Weidner Architectural has posted annual sales of $5 million and just this summer the company had its first $1 million month. The company is turning a profit, although he won\'t say how much.
The company makes signs for buildings, office parks, hotels and more, and the signs vary from small placards to large metal landmark signs for company logos. Often jobs include the small and large signs for any one building or complex.
Most of the company\'s clients were developers before the recession hit, and when they stopped building, sales went south and the company had to cut costs and downsize.
Vice President Kathy Weidner, 44, says those times left such an indelible impression on her that sometimes she still worries about once again growing too large and then having to lay people off should business slump again
When the outside consultant decided to work as a full-time manager, that freed up Rick Weidner to pursue clients in the Silicon Valley, a region that was still growing during those hard economic times. That turned out to be a smart move and sales started growing, says 47-year-old Rick Weidner.
Three years ago the Weidners brought on a full-time chief operating officer, Mark Copeland, who has managed the company for the Weidners since. Although Rick Weidner still holds the title of president, during the last four years he\'s been paid on a commission basis as a salesman.
Hand over the reins: But allowing an outsider to come in and manage is a difficult leap that many small-business owners are afraid to take. And if they do it they rarely succeed at it, according to one local small business adviser.
\"They had good sense to get someone with professional experience,\" says Don Bridgwater, owner of Bridgwater Business Consulting in Sacramento. \"That\'s not really typical. A lot of founders are very paternalistic about their business.
\"Generally entrepreneurs have a lot of desire and build (their company) ... without a lot of formality and planning. They reach a plateau and that\'s when they look at outside for help.\"
Since bringing on outside help during the recession, Weidner Architectural Signage has grown steadily and its client list includes well-known companies like Sun Microsystems Inc., Adobe Corp., Cisco Systems, Java City and recently the Sacramento River Cats.
Big changes: Ed and Shar Weidner, the parents of Kathy and Rick, started the company as House of Signs in 1955. It was a moonlighting gig for Ed Weidner, who was a police officer at the time in Sacramento. When the company grew, Weidner resigned from the police department to run the business full time...................