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- waltboszI went to Muscatine, Iowa on a work trip once. There was a restaurant there called Button Factory. It was housed in a former button factory. Pretty old building. The bar top had an epoxy inlay with embedded buttons that were produced in the factory.The meal was pretty good. The restaurant closed in 2012.
- felix-the-catSome of this old stuff is really interesting - I used to live in Wisconsin and there was this place called “Crex Meadows” near my house which was a wildlife area but the name seemed so weird I looked it up and it used to be a grassland where the Crex carpet company farmed grass for making carpets. I had no idea they used to make carpet out of grass fibers.Relevant link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crex_Carpet_Company
- cma5When you translate Johns surname into German, you get Böppel, which is slang for sth. small which you don‘t know the exact word for. So basically Böppel was making Böppel.
- ge96Man I miss getting lost in something, this is passion right, a craftThe buttons are pretty too
- del82I recently learned about using mussels for buttons when I visited the Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque, Iowa and have been wondering since: can Zebra Mussels be used for buttons? That would create (even more) economic incentive to go after them.
- josefritzishereTLDR: Consequently many freshwater mussel species are now extinct https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2023-10/21-species-deliste...
- whyageIs the fact that he was of German descent material to how the events transpired? Not sure why it's even mentioned in the headline.