![]() His predatory exploits are irrefutably horrific and I encourage you to read up on it to educate yourself. Regarding Ren and Stimpy’s creator John Kricfalusi, who is guilty of multiple sexual abuses, this desk and giveaway does not in any way mean I support him or his actions. I’ve created thousands of pieces of art on this desk. It was my work-at-home desk for the first half of the 2020 quarantine. I moved it back to Los Angeles when I returned to the animation industry in 2014. I moved it with me to Colorado where I used it as a freelance illustrator for 13 years. It became my art desk at home in Pasadena. (The desk was built new in 1993 when Nickelodeon took over show production from Spumco.) What a great surprise! Nobody else’s desk had massive artwork on it. So when it came time to move the desk home, I discovered the painting of Ren and learned about its origins on Ren and Stimpy. It had been against a wall the whole time and I’d never seen the back. The old ones were offered to the artists to purchase. ![]() In 1998, Nickelodeon opened a newly remodeled Animation Studio complete with modern animation desks. As a background designer, this was my desk on the show. Rocko’s Modern Life had been winding down so desks and supplies were transferred to the Hey Arnold crew. Reiff.My first animation job was on Hey Arnold at the start of season 1 production in 1996. Wilson, with additional contributions from Stephen R. By the end of the century, the enterprise founded a century and a half earlier had become a subsidiary of a large Swedish corporation called Securitas.ĭictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses (1820-2000) ![]() In the mid-1970s, the company had about 800 employees in the Chicago area. and the corporate headquarters moved to California, it had 70 branch offices (including central offices in Chicago and New York), about $75 million in annual revenues, and some 13,000 full-time employees worldwide. By the late 1960s, just after the name of the enterprise became Pinkerton's Inc. ![]() In 1937, Robert Pinkerton II, a great-grandson of the founder, ended the firm's antiunion operations. By the time Allan Pinkerton died in 1884, his sons William and Robert Pinkerton were leading the company, which had about 2,000 full-time employees and several thousand “reservists.” During the 1920s, annual revenues approached $2 million. When the two sides exchanged gunfire, nine strikers and seven Pinkerton agents were killed. The company's most infamous strike-busting operation came in 1892, when 300 Pinkerton employees fought with workers at the Homestead, Pennsylvania, steel plant owned by Andrew Carnegie. Starting in the 1870s, Pinkerton detectives also began to work for industrial companies as spies and strikebreakers, and they quickly became despised by American labor. Much of its business came from banks and express companies, who wanted to deter robberies. ![]() After the war, promoting itself with the slogan “we never sleep,” the company opened offices in New York City and Philadelphia. During the Civil War, the company provided intelligence to the Northern armies that was not particularly accurate. By late 1850s, Pinkerton employed 15 operatives. One of the first private detective agencies in the United States, this company worked for the Illinois Central and other railroads. By the beginning of the 1850s, Pinkerton and a partner had established the North-Western Police Agency, which had its offices at Washington and Dearborn Streets in Chicago. Allan Pinkerton emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1842, when he was 23 years old he soon settled in the town of Dundee, northwest of Chicago. ![]()
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