The family business that's known today as Baker Concrete Constructionbegan clawing its way up the hill a half century ago. This is the story of how it went from farmers selling produce out of trucks to building complex concrete structures across the country.Having learned the trade from their grandfather, Elmer Baker, the Baker brothers, Dan, Jim and Ken, quit their jobs in 1968 to start their own concrete contracting company, Baker Cement Contractors. In those early years, they focused on residential work. After getting its first commercial job in 1972, with the construction of the First National Bank in Hamilton, Ohio, Baker transitioned from residential to the commercial market. By 1978, the company received its first contract of more than 1 million sq ft, a place-finish job for a Montgomery Ward Distribution Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and shortly after, a 3-million-sq-ft job with Ford Motor Co.
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机译：如今被称为Baker Concrete Construction r n n的家族企业在半个世纪前就爬上了山坡。这是一个故事，讲述了从农民用卡车出售农产品到在全国各地建造复杂的混凝土结构的故事。 r n从祖父埃尔默·贝克（Elmer Baker），贝克兄弟（Baker），丹（Dan），吉姆（Jim）和肯（Ken） 1968年工作，创立了自己的混凝土承包公司Baker Cement Contractors。在最初的几年里，他们专注于住宅工作。在1972年获得第一份商业工作后，在俄亥俄州汉密尔顿建立了第一国民银行，贝克开始从住宅市场转变为商业市场。到1978年，该公司获得了第一份超过100万平方英尺的合同，这是在俄亥俄州辛辛那提市的蒙哥马利沃德配送中心完成的一项现场工作，不久之后，又与福特汽车公司达成了300万平方英尺的工作。
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