Oak Manufacturing was a big business in Crystal Lake.
Then, its management decided the company should be part of the West Coast scene.
The Crystal Lake Historical Society has too brief article on the company, which is is good as far as it goes.
I remember City Councilman Orrin Peterson telling me Oak’s multiple release of cyanide into the sewer system killed the “beasties” that treated ordinary sewage.
The original plant on the north side of Crystal Lake Avenue turned into a toxic waste site.
That was the building next to which RTA buses stopped.
The product I remember most is the one that sat on pretty much all television sets.
Now comes the Federal Communications Commission with limitations of foreign-made routers.
That sounds like a product Oak could have made were it still in business.
