AlentownOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

I wasn't sure where this should be posted as it is not 'train' related, but as it is "bakelite' related I thought I'd just drop it here. Flying home from vacation last week I had a copy of the New York Daily News in hand and came upon this story of the family of the scienties who developed bakelite, the product that was so instrumental in the early growth of the toy train hobby. I had no idea that the product was developed in Yonkers, NY, just miles from the old Bronx homestead....ok, apartment. Perhaps you'll find it interesting summer reading.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...ir-article-1.1114966

7/18/129:17 PM

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gunrunnerjohnOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Really? Here's the headline I find at your link.

He will kill you: Shrink warned mother of Baekeland plastics heir

Farmer_BillOGR Forum Member

He lived by the plastic and died by the plastic.

7/18/1211:02 PM

Andy HummellOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Just goes to show you that if you give a guy a second chance, he will likely take another stab at it...

Andy

7/18/1211:25 PM

Farmer_BillOGR Forum Member

He suffered old bags then he suffered in an old bag.

And he seemed like a knife guy!

7/19/1212:44 AM

TrainPopOGR Forum Member MEMORIALIZED MEMBER

By the plastic he lived.

By the plastic he died.

They said it was murder,

But it was plasticide.

Joe HohmannOGR Forum Member

It was also used to make another "toy" (although it was not considered a toy at the time)...the View Master viewer, from 1939 to the '50s.

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