[2" x 1 1/8". 1 7/16" x 5/8". Click for a larger view.]
From a brief history:
In 1943, the Grote companies combined under the name Grote Manufacturing Co. Like most other manufacturers of the time, Grote refocused its production on the war effort. It began making items for paravanes (devices that cut underwater mine cables), acrylic radio-controlled shells, and blackout lights. Once the war was over, the company converted its metal stamping machines to make medicine cabinets.Grote Mfg. Co. sold its medicine-cabinet division in 1970. As Grote Industries, the company rolls on.
Our Grote medicine cabinet is now gone, along with our other bathroom fixtures. Goodbye, old Grote. Goodbye, inside-cabinet-door labels. Bathroom-wise, we are stepping into the world of tomorrow, or at least the world of the next week or two. I had to stop myself from saving the blades of shavers past.
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Tolliver Groat would know what to do with one of those.
I returned to my parents home when they passed and decided to move back. The mirror in the bathroom is very kind to me. It makes me look much better then any other mirror. I think or thought it was because it knew me since I was 10 years old when the house was built and my family moved in. Now that I'm 87 years old, it still makes me look much younger. I wasn't sure if it was the original mirror from 1949 so I looked into it and saw the Grote name on back of the mirror! I do believe what I thought is true......that mirror has known me since I was 10 years old and treats me well to this day. XXXXOOOO
Anon., thank you for sharing your story here. It has made my day.
And I just wrote a post to call it to my readers’ attention.
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