The Bowery - Yahoo Clubs - Chat about the Bowery Boys comedies. This is a new newsgroup/chat room where you can discuss the Bowery Boys, Dead End Kids and Eastside Kids! A Bowery Boys Website has a nice overview of all the series. Leo Gorcey Jr.'s website where you can get info on his book about him and his father: Me and the Dead End Kid.
Collodion is a flammable, syrupy solution of pyroxylin (a.k.a. nitrocellulose, cellulose nitrate, flash paper, and gun cotton) in ether and alcohol. There are two basic types: flexible; non-flexible. The flexible type is often used as a surgical dressing or to hold dressings in place.
A cake of rosin, made for use by violinists, used here for soldering. Rosin, also called colophony or Greek pitch (Pix graeca), grÃ¦ca is a solid form of resin obtained from pines and some other, plants mostly, conifers produced by heating fresh liquid resin to vaporize the volatile liquid terpene. components