Tobey Parsons started in the reclamation business over 35 years ago, when he stumbled upon an old barn in Grays Harbor, Washington.  He salvaged 100-year old beams, siding and wooden roof shakes to be repurposed in a bar he was restoring. A decade later, when renovating a café and art gallery in the national historic Osborn Hotel in Portland, Oregon, he designed the interior around salvaged materials he found across the city. He came across 10,000 SF of red oak flooring at the old Robert’s Truck Motors that was headed for the trash bin, instead he figured out how to remove the flooring without damaging it and used 3,000 SF for the café, and the remaining 7,000 SF became the first of McGee Salvage’s inventory and sales.