Pachmyr closed the So. Grand store when I was shooting IPSC in what seems like to me was the early-mid eighties. Around that time, maybe a few years later, a Pachmyr store openned in Pasadena and the International trap and skeet range in Whittier Narrows Recreation Area was taken over by Pachmyr. There was also a gunsmithing business in Monrovia,CA in 1984-85 named Pachmyr, that sent my BSS barrels to Briley. The Pasadena store didn't last long.
I had heard the family sold the business around this time and that seems to fit with all this new business activity around this period.
I've heard the recoil pad business is all that survives of the Pachmyr businesses, and it is owned by someone other than the family
I remember being in the Los Angeles store when I was a kid, but don't remember the year. There were two later locations in Pasadena, one in an old (large) house adjacent to the property that later became Ambassador College. My recollection is that the house faced Del Mar Avenue near the corner of Orange Grove, right where the Rose Parade stages the floats on New Year's Day. I visited that Pasadena location in the late 60's, but couldn't afford anything in the building. The other Pasadena location opened in a store front in the South Lake Avenue shopping district, probably mid-80's, and did not last long. The demographics of those shoppers did not match the Pachmayr market, although their incomes generally did. Re the range in Whittier Narrows, my recollection is that the name changed from International to Pachmayr, then back to International for a few years before it became Triple B. I think the Pachmayr name and brand are now owned by Lyman Products; the Pachmayr pads are sold by Lyman. There are at least two former Pachmayr gunsmiths still practicing locally. Freddy Brunner is in Escondido and Les Pittman is in Downey, last time I checked.
