Tortilla Flat is peopled with characters that Steinbeck saw on the streets and in the courtrooms of Monterey. Real people, the Chief of Police and the descendent of the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California filled him in on the lives and activities of the street people of his day.
Neoprene Sheets, Neoprene Rubber, Neoprene Fabric. NEOPRENE is a synthetic rubber material designed to be flexible, durable, resilient, and very resistant to failure and breakdown by compression and water. Air and water become isolated in its unique molecular structure. Neoprene is temperately stable with a high heat resistance and commonly found in oven mitts.
Terrazzo products, such as General Polymers Thin-set Epoxy Terrazzo Floors from Sherwin-Williams , offer a host of eco-friendly benefits and can help buildings achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) status. For starters, epoxy terrazzo is a recycled material. It often contains recycled glass or leftover granite and marble chips from stone-processing plants. The thin-set epoxy contains no volatile organic compounds (VOCs), eliminating off-gassing in its manufacture and installation, as well as during the life of the floor.