The first Peter Pugger was born in 1973 in sunny San Luis Obispo, California. It was a collaboration of a then little known architect/potter named Gordon Motta and an even lesser known engineer named Randy Wood. Gordon wanted a pugmill and Randy had ideas.  After many long nights of welding, cutting, banging, bending, consulting, and a little swearing, a very strange pugmill emerged, made mostly of recycled parts from abandoned garlic factory processing equipment.  This long-nosed monstrosity was aptly named "Peter Pugger" by a friend with an active imagination. At that point no one imagined Peter Pugger would ever begin manufacturing. "If I had it to do over, I'm not sure I'd call it Peter Pugger", says Randy, "but it sure is a name people don't forget."