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[i]The company did work for NASA in the late 1950s, early 60s, Houze said, that included a high-strength glass for the space program. In 1948, Armand Houze's son Roger J. Houze, an artist, came up with the idea of cutting the glass and screening pictures, logos and advertisements on it and bending the glass. The company first produced Christmas cards on glass trays in 1950 with this new production and Houze Art became a new department. The company did work for artists such as Peter Max, Dan Baird and Tommy Parzinger. The department screened and bent glass until 1995. Houze made its own bending glass until 1974, when it used up its stock and started buying glass. The history noted that Houze produced special glassware for President Gerald R. Ford for guests who flew on Air Force One. Houze also produced glass trays and tumblers for Presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson. Houze also produced 100 special trays for Nixon to take as gifts for dignitaries on his 1972 trip to China. John Houze said the family sold the company in 1954. It eventually closed in 2004. But it offered more than a century of work and amazing products.[/i]
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