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Resistol Hats
Resistol Hats is a Garland, Texas-based manufacturing company best known
as a maker of cowboy hats. Starting in the early 1920’s, E.R. Byer, a young
millionaire investor, sold his business in Michigan and traveled south to Texas where he met an operator of a small hat factory named Harry Rolnick.
In 1927, E.R. Byer and Harry Rolnick became the founders of Byer-Rolnick
in Dallas. They used the name “Resistol Hats” to indicate that the hats could
“resist-all” weather conditions. As the demand for their hats increased,
Byer-Rolnick prompted expansion in 1938 to a larger facility in Garland,
Texas where Resistol is manufactured today. The company is now one of the
largest manufacturers of headwear in the world.
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