Do you have stories about working at Blenko, do you recall the stories a relative or friend told of days at Blenko?
If so please share with the Heart of Glass blog.
The following is from Larry Thompson, his father Harry Thompson spent his life working with Glass in West Virginia and later in Indiana/
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I have been getting conflicting answers on the person in the photo with Harry but the one they agree on is that the round bulb in the work bench under his hand is the tool he used to make the teardrop in the stemware like the one on the left in the photo. It is a rubber squeeze bulb with a metal tube added too it. He taught himself to make the the teardrop peace because he tried to make it the way he was told and the teardrop came out upsidedown. So he made the whole peace backwards.
Thanks
Larry T.
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