Elusive Red Tiger
While not actually related to duct tape, I did like the name of this store in Troup, Texas- Duct Tape and Lace. Owned by Robbyn Stockton and her mother Shannan Penrod, the store is a sort of antique shop/flea market with the idea that with a little “duct tape and lace”, old things can be…
While checking out the new Hobby Lobby store in town, I came across some new duct tapes. They basically look like burlap, some with colors and others with designs, such as animal print. I only picked up one so far, but I’m sure I will be grabbing a few more. Now, I know that technically…
In the 1940s, Vesta Stoudt, an employee at an ammunition packing plant in Illinois and a mother with two boys in the Navy, wrote a letter to president Franklin D. Roosevelt suggesting that ammunition cases be sealed with a “strong cloth tape.” The U.S. military then asked Johnson & Johnson to create a waterproof, cloth-based…
Recently, I received a copy of the book Duct Tape 911: The Many Amazing Things You Can Do to Tape Yourself Together for review. The book was written by James Hubbard, MD, MPH. Hubbard has become known as The Survival Doctor, and in 2011 he launched a website of the same name. The goal of…