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City Welding Sales & Service John Coffey opened City Welding Sales & Service in October 1958. 65 years later, the company continues to operate as a family business. John’s son, Shawn Coffey, has run the business since 1980.  The company officially opened in 1958 but its roots go back much further, to John’s grandfather, John C. Ardagh. After enlisting in the U.S. Army at the age of 16 to fight in World War 1, John returned to the states and, in 1919, had the opportunity to learn the relatively new phenomenon of arc welding. He worked at it until he…