{"id":814,"date":"2012-05-18T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/?p=814"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:35:02","slug":"thomas-b-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/thomas-b-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas B. Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas B. Hood<\/strong> (1911-1997) – born to George Thomas Hood (1880 – 1962) and Estella Mae (nay Carroll) Hood (1882-1969), into a family of farmers and ranchers who moved to Cedar Hill, Texas from Tiptonville, Tennessee. Hood grew up in Cedar Hill, Texas.<\/p>\n

Hood began his career in the graphic arts as a young man by apprenticing as a sign painter in Dallas, Texas. On December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the then 30-year-old, Hood attempted to join the U.S. Army to assist in the war effort. He failed his physical examination due to an old knee injury and decided instead to help by going to work at the 5th Ferry Command at Dallas Love Field (an Army-Air Force Base at the time) in January 1942.<\/p>\n

Hood worked in the paint department at Love Field. He painted the numbers on the planes and occasionally picked up extra money by painting the pilot’s names and the popular pinup designs on the side of the cockpit and nose cones. He quickly grew tired of painting the same numbers, 0 through 9 on the planes, and decided there must be a better and faster method. While purchasing some paintbrushes at a Dallas sign supply company, he was shown how the numbers could be screenprinted on the curved surface of the planes. Hood purchased a set of numbering screens and returned to the base to attempt the task. He glued strips of rubber on the bottom of the screens to serve as off-contact and the screen would be rolled across the curved surfaces as the squeegee moved. It worked and Hood became a screenprinter. His first job was to become a screenprinting instructor at the same sign supply company where he learned his first lessons.<\/p>\n

After the war ended in 1945, Hood moved his small family home to Cedar Hill, Texas (a suburb of Dallas, Texas) where he opened a screenprinting shop, Hood Screenprinting<\/em>, in the detached garage.<\/p>\n

When his son, Bill Hood<\/a><\/strong>, was born in 1945, he often took the baby into the shop while he worked. When Bill was old enough (at age 4), to stack the printed signs Tom put him to work in the shop. Tom continued to train him in the screenprinting process and today Bill continues his father’s legacy of screenprinting and education.<\/p>\n

Hood passed away on December 29, 1997, after enjoying a 55-year career in the screenprinting industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thomas B. Hood (1911-1997) – born to George Thomas Hood (1880 – 1962) and Estella Mae (nay Carroll) Hood (1882-1969), into a family of farmers and ranchers who moved to Cedar Hill, Texas from Tiptonville, Tennessee. Hood grew up in Cedar Hill, Texas. Hood began his career in the graphic arts as a young man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}