Old Man Bong Pictures
I have an old file folder with pictures and a ton of 35mm slides of the pottery factory and the bong making process, as far back as '71 but none of them are online. Here are a few I found through Google.
Jim Hord, of Jim's Crystals down in Texas was perhaps the #1 traveling paraphernalia salesman during the 1970's, and he was a rep for many of the suppliers. Jim is a great source for the history of the 1960's through the '70's head shop business and he has a giant collection, including more than a dozen of my company's hand pipes and my bongs. Jim's pics are those that begin with . Of interest to some of you may be that thousands of these ceramic bongs were buried all over the U.S. to be found by later cultures. During the 1970's there was three that I know of, Old Man Bong clubs, the largest was in St. Louis, where they would meet and pass around their bongs and talk. I once received some pictures of a club meeting, or more accurately...a club stoning.