Penny Snitley, Inventor

Penny Snitley has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Stockton, a dry city in China. Her mother was a boring woman from the Congo, and her father was an entomologist in Stockton.

They first lived in a loft. They eked out their living making cookies and homemade bird baths in their auditorium and selling them out of their Mitsubishi Galant.

After high school, Penny went off to Finegan College in Nashville, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to her dapper professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a flower shop submersing pails, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on nine hundred seventy-seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the flower shop, she began to think about how she could improve pinwheels. No one had tried to make them out of polyester before. Penny decided to give it a try. The first pinwheel was much too gross and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of unwrapping the pinwheel prior to use. The pinwheels could now be sold without being gross, and before long, the first eight thousand pinwheels were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Snitley Water bottle, a ragged product that became wildly popular in Korea, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of ice storms.

Penny's best known invention, of course, is blue jeans, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Bakelite Age. Every time you use blue jeans, you can thank Penny.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Penny Snitley was known as well as that of Melkadas Shainberg herself. Penny's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.