O A K L A N D, Calif., June 27, 2004 -- Ever notice how some windows sparkle? One of the secrets to that shine: Use a squeegee. The modern squeegee was invented in Oakland, and to this day, squeegees ...

Patrick Murphy manages an Oakland company that is the Microsoft of squeegees. But it doesn't get him a whole lot of respect. "We are in the Rodney Dangerfield of businesses," said Murphy, president of ...

Editor -- Thank you for the story on Ettore Products ("Squeegee capital; Oakland's Ettore a giant in the field," Sept. 28). In the early 1990s, when I was a teenager, my father owned a bakery in ...

Ettore Products Inc. is one of those companies most people think don't exist anymore. At least not within the borders of the United States. The firm is a deeply rooted, family-owned, old world ...

Among mankind’s greatest inventions or discoveries: the automobile, airplane, baseball, light bulb, jazz, telephone, radio, penicillin, motion pictures, television ...

Next time you curse out a squeegee guy, think twice. On Friday, the handle of the squeegee Jan Demczur used to wash the windows of the north tower of the World Trade Center became a part of the ...