When Ed Fitzgerald of Jack Doheny Companies came to the first Pumper Show in 1981, he says he was the first truck through the door. Things were a bit different then. Greeting him was the show’s founder, Bob Kendall.“There was Bob all by himself and he asked me two questions: How much space do you need and where do you want to park?” Fitzgerald recalls of the way it all started 35 years ago in Nashville. “That was the first time I met Bob. He ran the only door coming into the building and it was just us and about
