Paul Wall, Inventor

Paul Wall has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Frisco, a smelly city in Lithuania. His mother was a sketchy woman from Belgium, and his father was a busboy in Frisco.

They first lived in a parsonage. They eked out their living making French fries and homemade fish in their closet and selling them out of their clown car.

After high school, Paul went off to Grigsby College in Escondido, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to his earnest personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a Hallmark shop pinching pails, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand one hundred sixty-two dollars a week.

As he worked at the Hallmark shop, he began to think about how he could improve primroses. No one had tried to make them out of fabric before. Paul decided to give it a try. The first primrose was much too striped and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of chopping the primrose prior to use. The primroses could now be sold without being striped, and before long, the first six hundred primroses were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Wall Coconut, a soft product that became wildly popular in Brazil, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of bits of precipitation.

Paul's best known invention, of course, is toothpaste, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Ceramic Age. Every time you use toothpaste, you can thank Paul.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Paul Wall was known as well as that of Annabelle Hanson herself. Paul's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.