In 1926 Manuel Gorriaran founded Hook-Fast Specialties, Inc. by introducing what was then a newly invented style of belt buckle called the "Hook-Fast Can't Slip Buckle". Before long, customers began to request other items and Hook-Fast responded and expanded the business to include badges, tie clasps, name plates, money clips, and key chains. In the 1940s they started to make midget car pins and other track and street racing cars. These crossed checkered fl [...]
