Monday, July 24, 2017

Additional memo from Mr. Gumbinner (received on Dec. 15, 2016) 1 Mr. Gumbinner joins Polychrome



This is what I remember about Polychrome.. I may make additions or corrections in the future.

  After a few weeks an employment agency sent me to Polychrome Corporation that was located at the corner of Alexandra and Ashburton.  I was interviewed by Gregory Halpern and hired.  At that time they were coating tissue to be used as a duplicating (mimeograph) stencil.  The lot and building were bought from an oil company. There was a story and half main building.  A brick building which we designated as the ink house and a row of sheds.  Mr. Halpern had started Polychrome in lower Manhattan. First to rework excess printing ink.  He with Jimmy Marr, who coated duplicating stencils in Connecticut and Louis Mestre, a Cuban who had invented the night deposit box for banks made a mimeograph duplicator called the style.  When I arrived at Polychrome this had been discontinued .