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from the archives of Kinetico Studios. Our crew in
1975. Sitting are Terri Bradt, Gordon Bradt, and
Collette Bradt.
Above are Erwin Isles, Roger Putts, Gary Bingaman, Dan Pinkley, and Gene Clemenson. A rare look
inside the shop in 1975. At the top,
Dan is “potting the bases” with concrete and motors embedded within. Then, Roger is bending the sports figures
around until they work right. Irwin Isles and Renn Griffith brazing and bending.
Our crew in 1995
on the same porch. Gordon Bradt and Terri Bradt are
sitting, with Deborah DG Womack sitting beside Terri. Above from the left are Dave Dempsey, Ivan
“Sonny” Hall, Doris Griffith, Dean Winters and Joe Fahey. Terri at her
soldering bench. Sonny Hall Robert Wolfinbarger and Alan Hall brazing hands and gear spokes. Gordon Bradt around 1989. Gordon Bradt with Clock Dial for his Seven Man Clock he created
for The Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington. A Gordon Bradt Grandfather Clock in a South Korea Time Museum
owned by our friend, Sung-Woon Choi. A brochure by
our European Distributor, Hans “Nano” Bergweiler. Because of Hans, we shipped our 220volt
sculptures and clocks all over Europe. Advertising in
Japan, 1991. The Seven Man
Clock in a catalog from Israel. Dr. Julian
Stevens in London with his 2012 solid brass and copper Grandfather Clock
built by Kinetico’s Terry Clark. First came the
Six Man Clock, or Clock Sr. in 1980.
Then for a few years Kinetico made the Three Man Clock, or Clock Jr. The Seven Man Clock was born in the 1990s. Three “Space
Robots” that Gordon Bradt designed after being
inspired by R2D2 from the first Star Wars movie. Twenty-four
clocks sitting on the shop tables at the end of a week’s production. Along
the back wall are clocks sent to Kinetico for
restoration, and two Grandfather Clocks. A shot of the
“Sitting Man” on a chrome plated Grandfather Clock.
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