E. F. Johnson Company Edgar F. Johnson. Open House. 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" black and white photograph of three men at the Open House ceremonies of the new E. F. Johnson Co. headquarters in Waseca, Minnesota; identified L-R: A.M. Pichitino, Minnesota Governor Elmer L. Anderson, speaking into a Viking Personal Messenger; Edgar Johnson, founder, president and CEO of E. F. Johnson Co.; photographed by Huneke Studio, Waseca; photograph is damaged with tear in lower left corner, tape residue on backside. "Do you charge anything," asked Governor Elmer Anderson, "or are you letting them in free?" Governor Anderson was speaking over the Johnson Company's Personal Messenger to Gerald Nichtern, who was assisting in parking cars during the two-day open house. Nichtern, who normally works in the maintenance department, replied to the Governor that he "Was letting them in free." Holding the Personal Messenger at left is Johnson's chief engineer, A.M. Pichitino.
