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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

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Yup! Had these in the late ‘50s!
 
Gilbert Glass Blowing Kit 1920
Whatever ya do, dont knock that torch over!
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During my freshman year, at Whittier College in 1971, I took a scientific glassblowing class. Told Dad what I was taking and he must have had an image of novelty glass blowers at Disneyland. When he’d tell his friends what I was taking at college he would say “Basketweaving.” I didn’t find it funny at the time.