Buffaloians tip-toe through the drifts witout their galoshes. The Business Journals. Select a City Buffalo Business First. In case you missed it. Downtown hotel gears up for $4.2M ...

Akron Zips. Akron’s nickname originally was the Zippers, named after popular 1925 rubber galoshes with metal fasteners sold by tire manufacturer B.F. Goodrich.

The name was cribbed from the metal fasteners on B.F. Goodrich-brand galoshes. After all, zippers were just invented the decade before. It was fresh technology back then.

In Cambridge, Mass., Everett I. Hume became enraged when his wife wore her galoshes to bed. Sausage In Manhattan, one "Dr." David Wesson exhibited something made out of water, vegetable ...

Consider the smartphone -- slim lines, gorgeous materials, hyper-thin profile. Engineers ate out of a pizza box for a year to shave half a millimeter off that thing. Then you come along with your ...

NEW YORK—It was a miserable day, cold rain on old snow, and inside Grand Central Terminal, a young man named Justin Levy was sitting high up in an armchair, getting his shoes shined. They were ...

No galoshes were ever found, but Mr. Wilter never ceased to hope. Recently he got a letter from the Queen’s dresser in Buckingham Palace. “The galoshes,” she wrote, “were sitting in the ...

A zip fastener is one of life's little helpers. The zipper as we know it was invented in 1913 and eventually found its greatest glory in the fashion industry by replacing buttons and making ...

Akron Zips. Akron’s nickname originally was the Zippers, named after popular 1925 rubber galoshes with metal fasteners sold by tire manufacturer B.F. Goodrich.