In 1979 Jack Dulaney, El Paso Import Company's President, began dealing in Pre-Columbian art. Eventually, he began to collect and sell vintage and folk furniture and El Paso Import Company, or EPIC for short, was founded in 1985. EPIC's first retail store opened in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1987 and has expanded across the United States with locations in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Texas, in addition to an online store.