Mr. Toney, an engineer and former tire production quality manager, spends a couple of hours a week helping disadvantaged 9-year-old boys at East North Street Elementary School.
Latex Foam was founded by former workers of the Sponge Rubber Products Company, whose plant at a former tire factory in nearby Shelton exploded and burned in 1975 in what the F.B.I. said at the time was the nation's largest arson case.
In the Firestone-Ford case, the chief investigator is actually a civic-minded volunteer, Carlos Salanova, an auto dealer and former tire salesman from the same town as Indecu's president, Samuel Ruh Rios.
Made by hand in the former tire factory where he works and lives, in the Motor Row district of the city's Near South Side, they are extravagant amalgams of beads, buttons, sequins, sweaters, socks, hooked rugs, fake flowers and knickknacks that together speak the language of both sculpture and fashion.
After operating in a former tire-capping factory, the Skylight moved to its own home in 1993, where it has operated out of a renovated former grocery warehouse and, next door, a reproduction of an 18th-century theater from the South of France.
Another is a former tire parts factory at 470 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn, which is being developed for multiple tenants by the Carlyle Group of Washington, D.C. Another center is the old Western Union Building at 60 Hudson Street, between Worth and Thomas Streets in TriBeCa.
Former tire and battery service provider began trading second-hand construction equipment; grew into rental firm Tat Hong, now run by son Roland, who expanded into China, Australia this year.
She's the only former tire dealer in Congress.
A former tire shop owner, Mays had grown addicted to OxyContin prescribed for back and knee pain.
The Borkowskis' house is not an Aspen earth shelter made of adobe and old tires, built by a former software executive who converted to planetary consciousness at Burning Man.
