We’re Celebrating 40 Organized Years!

Our story begins on July 1st, 1978 in Dallas, Texas. A new prime-time soap opera, also named “Dallas,” had premiered a few months before and was the hot topic among TV fans. The other hot thing was the temperature—98 degrees to be exact—but that’s typical for summers in Texas. That same day, in a small shopping center in north Dallas, Garrett Boone and Kip Tindell opened the doors of The Container Store’s very first store. Garrett had a master’s degree in history and Kip had majored in English,