Smelling Money

ProductsMac LoveJuly 21, 2022Julius Garman

Earthmover

ProductsMac LoveJuly 4, 2022Thomas Kot

Building a Tire

Products, The WorkMac LoveJune 20, 2022Jasper Shadie

Mr. Stuck

ProductsMac LoveMay 29, 2022Patricia Bursac

Puncture Proof

ProductsMac LoveMay 29, 2022Kevin Robinson

This Dust

ProductsMac LoveMay 29, 2022Joseph Heisser

Patent Gloves

ProductsMac LoveApril 17, 2022Patricia Bursac

Black Snowflakes

ProductsMac LoveJanuary 9, 2022Mary Hopper

Wuz-Blak

ProductsMac LoveSeptember 8, 2021

Fresh Paper

ProductsMac LoveSeptember 1, 2021

How to Deal

ProductsMac LoveAugust 23, 2021

Plastic Sleeves

ProductsMac LoveAugust 20, 2021

Pineapple Belts

Rosalie Cavett’s father, Edmund A. Buzzelli, Sr., started working at the BF Goodrich company in 1943 as an operator in the hand cutting department for miscellaneous rubber stocks.

ProductsMac LoveMay 19, 2021Rosalie Cavett, Edmund A. Buzzelli, BF Goodrich

Puncture Proof

ProductsMac LoveMay 7, 2021Kevin Robinson, Firestone, Otis Spurling

The Roller Cutter

ProductsMac LoveMay 6, 2021Judy Lee, Ace Rubber, Firestone

A Legacy in Story

Akron Stories collects, preserves, and celebrates the stories of Akron’s rubber workers and their descendants. We have organized these stories into the following categories:

Akron Life • History • The Work • Products • People & Identity

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