Angelo Rapp, Founder
Born in Paterson, NJ, Angelo Rapp was a gifted artist. He attended The Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts while working at his family’s “North Newark Restaurant,” delivering sandwiches to workers in factories during the war effort, and working the soda fountain in the evenings. In 1943, at the age of 18, he enlisted in the Navy and became a weatherman stationed at Dutch Harbor on the Aleutian Islands, AK, where he served for approximately two years.
Following the war, Angelo was hired by Admiral Corporation, a then-leading manufacturer of television and appliances, where he started as an Artist, and was promoted to Sales Promotion Manager responsible for trade show displays, point-of purchase merchandising and dealer cooperative advertising programs. He left Admiral to start Rapp Advertising in 1952.
He served as President of the Irvington Chamber of Commerce, President of the Irvington Library Board of Trustees, and President of the Mountainside Lion’s Club, and was a Board member of the New Jersey Association of Advertising Agencies, and the Sales Executives Club of New Jersey.
An avid watercolorist, sailor and golfer, he retired in 1996, and in 1998 moved from Mantoloking, NJ to Jupiter, FL with wife Marie.

on set of photo shoot for Hudson Tool metal enclosures, 1959.
