Chance M. Vought rented the firm’s first facilities on the third floor of the five-story Garside Building on the corner of Webster and Seventh Avenue in the Long Island suburb of Astoria. The first and second floors housed the landlord, A. Garside and Sons, manufacturers of women’s footwear.  On the fourth floor, a company produced phonograph records. Sandwiched between was the somewhat incongruous location for Chance Vought to begin building an aircraft heritage