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Thread #29227   Message #367999
Posted By: Joe Offer
03-Jan-01 - 05:15 PM
Thread Name: Dremel Fixation! I been Hyp-notized!
Subject: RE: Dremel Fixation! I been Hyp-notized!
Thanks for the link, Kevin. I was very pleased to find that Dremel is still located on 21st Street in my home town, Racine, Wisconsin (on Lake Michigan, 25 miles south of Milwaukee). When I lived there in the 1950's and 1960's, Racine was a fairly prosperous little town of 90,000 inhabitants. For such a small town, it had a lot of well-known brand names - Johnson's Wax, J.I. Case Tractors and Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Walker jacks/mufflers, Horlick's Malted Milk, Hartmann-Wheary Luggage, Hamilton Beach, Whitman coloring books, Oster's "Raycine" hair clippers, Jacobson lawn mowers, Young Radiator, and Dremel. Many people from Racine worked ten miles south in Kenosha, home of American Motors and Jockey underwear. We also had a fishing industry that had the most interesting little boats (I tried to find a picture to link to, but couldn't - they looked kind of like wooden shoes). In the years since, many of the industries have shut down or moved south. Racine was down to a population of 70,000 at one time, but now it's back to 84,000.
Anyhow, it's nice to see that Dremel is still there. Johnson's Wax seems to be doing well, too.
-Joe Offer, in exile in California for 25 years-