Preserving Art, Culture, and History: Glass in Central City

Friends of Glass

"I was friends with two glass blowers and knew them pretty well," Bush said. "Jerry Stinner and his brother were both glass blowers. Stinner worked at Rainbow Glass as a glass blower. His brother and I ran around together when I didn't even have a driver license. We'd go over and pick up his brother at Rainbow because he worked evening shift. Sometimes we'd park outside and you can see in through the mesh fence, similar to chain-link, and you could watch them work. They were have a gatherer and the guy would take the pipe and get the glass on the end of it out of the vat and take it over to a bench where they would work the glass on the blowpipe."