There is no theme to this list. These are just places I’ve discovered.
Color Me Company makes cotton pillowcases, t-shirts, etc. that kids can color. Great for party favors/activities!
Replogle Globes for educational and decorative globes. All types, all price ranges. Made in Chicago.
Kimmel Gnomes adorable clay garden gnomes and mushrooms. Lots more character than your average gnome!
Bridge City Tools great quality woodworking tools.
Bills Khakis offers the highest quality khakis, jeans and oxford shirts.
Buffalo Billfold Company makes leather billfolds and handbags.
Bitters Bait and Tackle in Florida for soft plastic lures. Go fish!
Vermont Originals for a variety of fashionable hand knit ski hats. Custom hats available. Prices comparable to those foreign made ones at the local ski shop.
Trager Usa in Seattle makes backpacks, messenger bags and laptop bags. Great classic styles good for professionals.
Okabashi offers well-priced, trendy plastic clogs and sandals.
Van Ness Plastic in New Jersey makes dog dishes, litter boxes, hamster balls and more for your pets! Site has a list of major retailers who carry their products.
RJC Hawaii on the island of Oahu sews Hawaiian shirts. Why buy a Hawaiian shirt made in Indonesia?
That’s it for today folks! I’m keeping my head up despite the local closings of a large commercial bakery, a plastics manufacturer and an auto parts factory. The plastics manufacturer just gave up and closed rather than try to compete with the cheap imports at Wal-Mart. The auto parts manufacturer is reneging on an agreement they made with the union two years ago. More concessions are required.
At least my area hasn’t been hit by the mortgage meltdown. There’s always a bright side!
Thank you for taking the initiative. I’ve long been distressed by the short-sighted greed that was taking our manufacturing jobs overseas. When my step-daughter’s one-person medical transcription service was replaced by an overseas service, I realized it wasn’t just manufacturing!
Books I recommend:
Collapse by Jared Diamond
The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff
Who Will Tell the People by William Greider
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
Leroy L. (Les) Hamilton, Ph.D.
Silver Spring, MD
Although The Fountainhead is excellent, I really meant to mention Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand for her insight into the decline of U.S. leadership in manufacturing.
Leroy L. Hamilton
Great American made company info.
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Outstanding!!
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