Alpine Roofing

Alpine Roofing, Inc. is a story of a family-operated business dedicated to quality roofing service backed by experience. It's been that way for four generations in the Coyne family. It started in 1930 when John Coyne went to work in New York as a roofer. In 1939, John moved to the west coast, a few years later opening the Five-Star Roofing Co. The stars are in honor of the five sons he had in military service during World War II. Those boys all returned safely, three of them - Robert, William, and Richard worked at the trade until joining forces in 1953 with Owens Roofing in Los Angeles as roofers. As a supervisor for Owens Roofing, Bob compiled an exceptional record of roofing accomplishments with such jobs as roofing the Pauley Pavilion at U.C.L.A., The Forum, the I.R.S. building in Fresno, and the Federal Reserve Building in Los Angeles. Jim McClain, President of Owens and past president of the Roofing Contractors Association of Southern California had this to say of Bob Coyne: "Through his own effort and imagination, Bob has developed mechanical devices right on the job - inventions so to speak - which at times have so aided our work that we could 'save' what at first appeared to be a really tight job." During their 20 years of service with Owens Roofing, each of the Coyne brothers ascended through the company: Bill becoming a salesman for Owens Roofing in Los Angeles, Dick becoming Superintendent of the Hayward, California shop, and Bob becoming Vice President/Superintendent of the Los Angeles shop in 1963. At the time of Bob's promotion, Owens Roofing was one of the west's larger roofing companies with annual gross sales of $470,000. Ten years later the Los Angeles shop was grossing nearly $6 million a year. It was at this time, 1973 that Bob decided to venture into his own business with his three sons and a younger brother, Steve. It was the beginning of Alpine Roofing Co. Inc. in California and Nevada. What was started originally as a business to service residential roofing needs has become one of the ...