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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 256137, member: 50&quot;]And Lullabye:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/Your-Town-Stevens-Point-Lullabye-Furniture-Factory--286298601.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/Your-Town-Stevens-Point-Lullabye-Furniture-Factory--286298601.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/Your-Town-Stevens-Point-Lullabye-Furniture-Factory--286298601.html</a></p><p><i>While it may be a vacant lot today, the site of the former Lullabye Furniture factory in downtown Stevens Point holds a lot of history.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>It all began in the 1890&#039;s when Stevens Point resident John Bukolt and his wife had a baby girl who was prone to colic. To help ease her symptoms, Bukolt invented a cradle that could be could be wound and rock by itself. The simple idea quickly blossomed into a major Portage County company.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;He died in 1929 and by that time there were about 160 employees in Stevens Point. They had other plants elsewhere up in Northern Wisconsin.&quot; says Tim Siebert of the Portage County Historical Society.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Lullabye Furniture produced about 80 different products from the 1890&#039;s through the 1970&#039;s. During that time the enlisted the help of a well know celebrity spokeswoman.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;In the 50&#039;s they got Lucille Ball to help promote the Lullabye rocking cradle and their other infant furniture. It was extremely well known and considered top of the line.&quot; Siebert says.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>After the plant closed in the 1970&#039;s the site sat vacant, however the City of Stevens Point has some big plans for the property. Once a cleanup project of potentially contaminated soil is completed, a redevelopment is planned.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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