Quote Originally Posted by allusred View Post
Lil bit of History.

Those large wire reels were ships sailed by grade school kids (boys only) of course on the Oceans in the meadowlands of North jersey. Epic battles waged by rival pirate ships.The water was kinda brownish and smelled a bit funny.The Oceans were Located near a factory. May have been some run off from the plastic production. Polution hadn't been invented back then. Anyway none of the boys turned blue or orange.
Are you sure that's not how umpa loompas were made?