Here are a few items on the Lodge Manufacturing Co. You know them, you probably have one or more of their pans in your kitchen. I fried supper in one of mine about an hour ago, in fact. Anyway, here we go:
The Guided Tour, at YouTube, 11:23 minutes.
How Lodge Pans Are Made, at YouTube, 11:21 minutes. Similar content, different camera angles.
The Lucky Dogs of South Pittsburgh, article at The Bitter Southerner.
Amazing stuff and amazing quality at a dirt-cheap price. But you know what's really amazing? That they're hanging on, in fact doing quite well, in a world full of leveraged buy-outs and manufacturing fleeing to China ASAP. Now that is amazing. Go extrapolate to economics and presidential politics amongst yourselves.
