What was the shop visited by Gemmy Industries product development vice president Joe known for?
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Big Mouth Billy Bass Big Mouth Billy Bass is an animatronic singing prop, representing a largemouth bass, invented on December 16, 1998, sold on January 1, 1999, and popular in the early 2000s. The fish is made of latex rubber with a plastic mechanical skeleton inside of it; at first glance, it appears to be a mounted game fish. The product was conceived by Gemmy Industries product development vice president Joe Pellettieri following a visit to a Bass Pro Shop. The device turns its head towards a person, facing them, and then wiggles its tail on its trophy plaque and sings kitschy cover songs, such as "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin and "Take Me To The River" by Al Green, who said he received more royalties from it than from any other recording of the song. The singing mechanism was originally activated by a motion sensor and intended to startle a passerby. Eventually, a button was added to activate it. In addition, many variants of Big Mouth Billy Bass were also produced by Gemmy using different types of game fish and other aquatic animals, with some of them being Travis the Rainbow Trout, Cool Catfish, and Rocky Lobster. The concept was even later adapted into a large mounted deer head, known as Buck the Animated Trophy, which is voiced by actor Clint Ford, and a medium-sized mounted bear head.
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Bass Pro Shops Bass Pro Shops (Outdoor World) is a privately held retailer of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor recreation merchandise, known for stocking a wide selection of gear. Bass Pro Shops supports and sells merchandise for the National Audubon Society.
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Michael C. Fina Michael C. Fina is a private family owned and operated New York City-based fine goods retailer and worldwide employee recognition company headquartered at 33-01 Hunters Point Ave in Long Island City. The company's online store, MichaelCFina.com is known for selling engagement rings, wedding bands, jewelry, fine tableware, vintage silver, bath and home fragrances. The company also helped popularize bridal registries. The company is currently run by the third generation of the Fina family. Steven Fina is President and Chief Merchant of the retail division. Ashley Fina, Owner and President, leads Michael C. Fina Recognition, a separate business that exists under the Michael C. Fina brand.
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Yupiteru Yupiteru (ユピテル工業株式会社 "Yupiteru Industries Co. Ltd.") is a Japanese based electronics manufacturing company, best known for their radio, radar and telecommunications equipment. The name "Yupiteru" is English-style words of the "Jupiter" in Japan. However, they also manufacture car security equipment and electrical supply equipment (transformers/inverters).
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George F. Morrison George Francis Morrison (1867–1943), was an American business executive, industrialist, Edison Pioneer, and a Director and Vice President of General Electric Company. He was one of Thomas Edison's closest associates and a pioneer in the production of the incandescent lamp, having held a number of patents including that of filament manufacture. Towards the latter part of his decades-long career, Morrison traveled the world introducing the lamp and promoting its use.
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Bon Ami Company Bon Ami Company is a manufacturing business, producing laundry, household cleaning products, air care, and lawn and garden products. The company headquarters are located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
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Ball and Roller Bearing Company The Ball and Roller Bearing Company, also known as American Family Crafts and the Joseph Nutt House and Machine Shop, is a historic industrial complex at 20-22 Maple Avenue in Danbury, Connecticut. The complex includes three buildings, two of which are wood frame and one which is brick. The two wood frame buildings include the Queen Anne-style former home of Joseph Nutt, who established a machine shop providing services to Danbury's hat making industry in 1886. Nutt's home also served as his company's office, and is attached to a single-story monitor-roofed brick structure. The factory is most notable as the location where Lewis Heim, owner of the Ball and Roller Bearing Company, invented the modern centerless grinding machine in 1917.
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Jon Zazula Jon Zazula, also known as Jonny Z is the owner of New Jersey's legendary Rock'n Roll Heaven record store and founder of record label Megaforce Records. Zazula's record store in East Brunswick, New Jersey made him a central figure of the East Coast metal scene, regularly playing demo tapes sent to him through his underground tape-trading network which included the likes of Brian Slagel of Metalblade Records, Ron Quintana (the editor of "Metal Mania" magazine), and producer Mark Whitaker. He was also somewhat of a mentor to Eddie Trunk.
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Lake Joe Lake Joe, also known as East Oakwood Drive Lake, is located about two miles southeast of Avon Park, Florida, and about 2.25 mi north of Sebring, Florida. It is bounded on three sides by citrus orchards and on the south by a wooded area and a set of railroad tracks.
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H. J. Wilson Co. H. J. Wilson Co., also known as Wilson's, was an American catalog showroom chain based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Founded in 1947 as a jewelry store, it was acquired in 1985 by Service Merchandise.
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Joseph F. Ware Jr. Joseph Fulton "Joe" Ware Jr. (November 8, 1916 – April 23, 2012) was a flight test engineer at Clarence "Kelly" Johnson's famed Skunk Works in the Lockheed Corporation on the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, and many others from World War II and the Cold War, becoming Department Manager of Engineering Flight Test. He was the son of Joseph F. Ware, Sr.
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McCrory Stores McCrory Stores or J.G. McCrory's was a chain of five and dime stores in the United States based in York, Pennsylvania. The stores typically sold shoes, clothing, housewares, fabrics, penny candy, toys, cosmetics, and often included a lunch counter or snack bar. They also exclusively sold Oriole Records, one of the most popular 'dime store labels' from 1921 to 1938.
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Joe Knight Building Joe Knight Building, also known as Joe's Corner and Knight Drug Store, is a historic commercial building located at Lebanon, Laclede County, Missouri. It was built in 1948, and is a three-story, Streamline Moderne brick building with a flat roof. It features horizontal bands of windows and the curved corners are accented by large curved glass block walls. Dark bricks are also used to spell out "Joe Knight '48" and "Knight" on the main elevations.
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Jerome's Jerome's Furniture Warehouse is a family-owned chain of discount furniture stores in Southern California, with its headquarters in San Diego, California. The company's key owner and figurehead is Jerome "Jerry" Navarra.
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J. C. Penney Company Building (Shoshone, Idaho) The J. C. Penney Company Building in Shoshone, Idaho, United States, is a historic department store building. It was built in 1918 by stonemason Ignacio Berriochoa.
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Genji, LLC Genji, LLC., a subsidiary of Peace Dining Corporation, is the largest sushi provider to Whole Foods Market, serving the eastern U.S., California and the UK. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the company currently operates over 165 sushi and Japanese cuisine restaurants in 18 U.S. states and D.C., and in London and Scotland. Ingredients are all-natural with no artificial preservatives, flavor-enhancers or food coloring. Fish is sourced from suppliers who use sustainable fishing practices which do not deplete the fish population.
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J. C. Penney Historic District J. C. Penney Historic District is a historic district in Kemmerer, Wyoming encompassing several properties associated with James Cash Penney. The district includes the Golden Rule Store, the first in what became the J. C. Penney department store chain.
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Rainbow Conoco The Rainbow Conoco at 400 Main St. in Shelby, Montana, also known as Joe's, was built in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
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Shelby Gem Factory The Shelby Gem Factory is a Michigan company that manufactures artificial gemstones through proprietary processes. The factory makes more varieties of man-made gemstones than any other in the world. It grows artificial gems and gem simulants, including synthetic ruby and simulated diamonds, citrine, topaz, and other birthstone substitutes, and mounts them in gold or silver jewelry.
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Global Electronic Music Marketplace The Global Electronic Music Marketplace (GEMM) was an online music trading website established in 1994. It was founded by CEO/COO Roger Raffee and Jim Hall, and based in La Jolla, California, United States. Most of the items traded on the site were used CDs and LPs. As of February 2016 the site is defunct.
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Jōe Jōe (浄衣 ) (sometimes translated from Japanese as "pure cloth") is a garment worn in Japan by people attending religious ceremonies and activities, including Buddhist and Shinto related occasions. The "jōe" is essentially a white "kariginu", traditional hunting robes worn by nobles during the Heian period.
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Joe Angelo Joseph T. Angelo (1896–1978) of Camden, New Jersey was an American veteran of World War I and recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross. Prior to joining the U.S. Army Angelo worked for the Du Pont Powder works, and was later involved in the Bonus Army movement of the 1930s.