He also went to Duluth, where he toured an upholstery factory.
I once had to go to a fire in an upholstery factory, and I asked my editor, 'Is that really big news?' He said, 'It's right next door to a brothel - see if the girls are in any trouble'".
Sidney Poitier, with whom he had worked in "Edge of the City" (1957), cast him as a bumbling police lieutenant in "Let's Do It Again" (1975), and he played a dentist who invents a superglue in an episode of "The Odd Couple" on television and the boss at an upholstery factory in the Cheech and Chong film "Up in Smoke" (1978).
Though they had worked in banking before, they survived in Taipei by selling steamed buns on the street for several years until getting jobs in a textile plant, eventually opening their own curtain and upholstery fabric factory.
Miranda Richardson, 'Made In Dagenham' NIGEL COLE'S "Made in Dagenham" (Nov. 19) is based on a small but potent 1968 uprising, better known in Britain than here, when the women who assembled automobile upholstery at a Ford factory near London walked off the job after discovering that their wages were half what the men earned for comparable work.
Sherborne Upholstery, which has its main factory in Bradford, West Yorkshire, has grown from a small family business into a successful upholstery company with two factories and more than 250 employees.
The boom in American housing generated millions of new jobs for those willing to engage in physically demanding tasks, from factory work churning out floorboards, carpeting and upholstery, to landscaping, roofing and janitorial services.
Like the fabrics and upholstery, the cinnamon collection has come a long way from its factory in Uluwatu, Indonesia, famous for its surf spots.
Smitten by its generous scale (5 feet long by 36 inches wide), he and his business partner, Michelle Gautier, tracked down the South Carolina factory that made the frame and then upgraded the upholstery with Mies-mod button tufting.
Among other things, it makes it easier to imagine the day when a Porsche engineer, maybe Ferdinand Porsche's son, Ferry, first drove that very car out of the factory and down the road, listening for errant squeaks and rattles, checking the upholstery stitching, sensing the steering and shifting while sizing up engine response, then pronouncing it ready for shipment to an enthusiast in America.
Toiling in a decrepit, leaky factory in sweatshop conditions, the brash and feisty "girls," as everyone calls them, strip down to their bras while sewing car-seat upholstery.
