Description
Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber The city tells the tale of growing up within the rubber community of Firestone Park in Akron, Ohio”the previous Rubber Capital of the World. The book begins with the rededication of the bronze Harvey Firestone statue on August 3, 2000, on the Centennial celebration for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. The statue
”perched high on a hill on the entrance to Firestone Park, the residential community Harvey built for his workers in 1915
”was once sacred to the creator, Joyce Coyne Dyer, and her father, Tom Coyne, all through the fifties, a time when the Coynes worshipped the corporate and thought themselves members of the Firestone circle of relatives.