Media query

[bonru-32]

Hi everyone,

I'm a reporter with an unusual request for a story.  I'm writing about the last remaining company in the U.S. still making an old-time product, vanishing from America's landscape.  For example, there's a manufacturer in Minnesota that is the only one still making barber poles.  Likewise, there's only one company still making audiotape. And there's a Kentucky company that is the last one cranking out washboards.  I need just one more...and to be clear, I'm not talking about "ye olde" replicas.   Can you help?

Thanks,

Bonnie Rubin

[juststuffisell]

Can't think of one, but would love it if you would message me a link to the finished article. Would like read it.

Cheers

[slippinjimmy]

Check this site:

https://www.lehmans.com/

Some of the stuff they deal with are reproductions but quite a bit are made by people or companies that have been making these products for decades and decades/

They sell Aladdin Lamps (http://aladdinlamps.com/history/), while a few of their parts are made overseas I think the majority, and all assembly are still done in the USA.

[krazzykats]

Libbey Glass Company

Arm & Hammer

Homer Laughlin China Co.

[bonru-32]

Thanks so much...what an interesting website, too!

I'm really new to Ebay and I didn't know where to post this query where it would get the most exposure.  Is this the best forum?  Any help is most appreciated!

Bonnie

[krazzykats]

1888 Mills’ Griffin facility is among the last remaining towel manufacturing plants in the USA.

Sherrill Manufacturing, America's only remaining flatware maker.

[18704d]

I simply Googled and found this:

https://www.usalovelist.com/oldest-american-made-products/

Lynn

[bonru-32]

Hi Lynn,
Interesting -- but, unfortunately, not on point. It isn't about the oldest companies...it's about a product that has dwindled down to such little demand (like washboards) that there's only one manufacturer left. So, while Caswell-Massey may be the oldest lotion maker in the U.S., there are still lots of companies that make lotion. At first, I thought of VCRs, but the last VCR rolled off the assembly line a couple years ago.
But I do appreciate your help! Bonnie

[gopetersen]

dial phones? telephone booths (they still exist but do they still make them?)

black and white TVs?

dot matrix printers? (they might still be making them but I'm not sure)

8mm/super8 mm film and cameras

8-track and cassette tapes

library card catalogs (the wooden ones with lots of drawers)

microfiche readers

[bonru-32]

Oooh...great list! Will start researching right now!

Thank you so much!

[southern*sweet*tea]

Aardvark - the only company in the US that produces paper straws. Paper straws are making a huge comeback