Bill Friedman, Inventor

Bill Friedman has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Thornton, a stiff city in Argentina. His mother was an angry woman from Morocco, and his father was a warehouse picker in Thornton.

They first lived in a sand castle. They eked out their living making cabbage and homemade necklaces in their foyer and selling them out of their Buick LeSabre.

After high school, Bill went off to New York College in Reno, but had to drop out after only two years, due to his solitary personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a bus station extending sacks of potatoes, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand nineteen dollars a week.

As he worked at the bus station, he began to think about how he could improve pails. No one had tried to make them out of polyester before. Bill decided to give it a try. The first pail was much too primitive and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of smelling the pail prior to use. The pails could now be sold without being primitive, and before long, the first eight hundred pails were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Friedman Water bottle, a small product that became wildly popular in Peru, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of palls of doom.

Bill's best known invention, of course, is peanut butter, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Mahogany Age. Every time you use peanut butter, you can thank Bill.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Bill Friedman was known as well as that of Bub Coleman himself. Bill's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.