Upon graduation from high school, Louis started into the grocery business. Larry worked at many odd jobs in addition to hours he devoted to his father's business. Unfortunately, Larry was later killed in duty in WWII. As time passed, Albert set up shop in Cincinnati, Ohio on Front Street. The two younger boys, Chester and Oren, were expected to put in their time before and after school. They were both hard workers and excelled in sports at Holmes High School located in Covington, Kentucky. Chester's game was football and Oren excelled in basketball. However, the majority of their time was spent in the family-owed chicken and egg business. Eventually, Chester and Oren graduated from Holmes and started pursuing opportunities other than Dad's shop.

In 1941, WWII prompted both young men to join the military. Larry was already in the Army, so both went to enlist. Chester was now 21 and Oren at 19 decided to defend freedom. Oren joined the Army. However, Chester was diagnosed as a diabetic and was admitted into the hospital. These issues were not set backs for the determined young men. Continuing to help with their father's business, yet not wanting to spend the rest of their lives under his rule, the two saw the possibilities of burlap and cotton bags.

Chester and Oren ventured out on their own and through hard work, and a little luck, realized there was gold in the bag industry. In 1944, Front Street became the home to Long Brothers Bag Company. The brothers decided to look into handling paper bags and sand bags, but discovered there was a need for fiber containers and steel drums.

With a little more luck, a few hunches and much initiative, they started looking into reconditioning steel drums. Their natural instincts kicked in and in 1946 Chester and Oren founded Cincinnati Drum Service, Inc.

With the assistance of Young and Bertke, a local manufacturer of heavy equipment, they built special ovens, conveyors and tanks. Soon the first 55-gallon reconditioned steel drums started rolling. Ander Chemical and Hilton-Davis Chemical Co. were the brothers' first two customers.

The Front Street location soon became too small for the expanding businesses (bags and drums). They leased property and a building in Oakley, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati) to contain the drum portion of the business. The Front Street property was used solely for the bag business until 1957. Chester and Oren saw the opportunity to move back to Kentucky. They intended to put both Cincinnati Drum Service, Inc. and Long Brothers Bag Company under the same roof. Property was purchased on the banks of the Ohio River in Ludlow, Kentucky. "The Mill Building" (as it was called at the time), situated at Post Place and River Road, became their new home.

Operations were booming - steel drums; fiber drums; paper bags; burlap bags; sand bags. The brothers worked long, hard hours and it was starting to pay off. They expanded operations in 1965 to Indianapolis, Indiana. Property was leased to run closed head steel drums for the customers in that region. The endeavors were so successful that they purchased land in Reading, Ohio and built a plant to recondition open head drums along with closed head drums.

In 1975, the Ludlow, Kentucky facility became the bag and fiber container division and the reconditioning of the steel drums was done in the Reading, Ohio location. At this time, Chester and Oren owned two reconditioning facilities, Reading, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana, and the bag company in Ludlow, Kentucky. They owned a fleet of fifteen (15) tractors and over two hundred ( 200) trailers. Their customer base expanded to Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia. Their work force consisted of 200 men and women. They owned property in Wilmington, Ohio, Walton, Kentucky, Indianapolis, Indiana and a farm in Erlanger, Kentucky where both families have resided side by side since 1951. The brothers shared a successful business and successful personal lives. Chester, his wife Pauline and their ten (10) children, along with Oren, his wife Jane and their five (5) children enjoyed the Horatio Alger lifestyle. Through God's blessing, hard work, determination, dedication and loyalty, one can achieve.

Chester passed away in 1979 after seeing his company grow from a small bag company to a well established, well respected, nationally recognized recycler of steel containers.

Oren passed away in 1997 but not before overseeing the expansion into reconditioning plastic containers. He saw the bag company go international.

The future is well in hand with the legacy given to the next generation. Values, respect, hard work, honesty, courtesy, trust and team effort. These two fine gentlemen (Chester and Oren) established a corporation that today continues to serve the reconditioning industry. The brothers dared to dream and made the dream a reality. Through leadership they earned respect from so many. Through hard work they earned success. Through the gift of caring they earned business associates and through the gift of time, they became Cincinnati Drum Service, Inc. (Reading, Ohio), Indianapolis Drum Service, (Indianapolis, Indiana), and Long Brothers Diversified Packaging (Ludlow, Kentucky).