American Made

Manufacturing in the United States is shrinking! It's no doubt that our manufacturing base, a segment that used to provide more than 25% of our economy is being shipped off to foreign shores. It's just above 10% of the economy today and much of that is related to government. But there are still some left!

 Linda G. has found some American made products! (this was a response to iconic products no longer made in the USA)

American Made Light Bulbs - http://www.lightbulbsdirect.com/page/001/CTGY/USABulbs

American Made Utensils - http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/kitchen.html

You got me on the canned sardines - 04/19/10 The lone survivor, the Stinson Seafood plant h...ere in this eastern Maine shoreside town, shuts down this week after a century in operation. It is the last sardine cannery not just in Maine, but in the United States. http://cbs4denver.com/watercooler/sardine.canneries.close.2.1631524.html

This is the closest I could find for 'American Made Computer' - http://digitalstormonline.com/# But Otter Box makes a great case for iphones and they're right here in Fort Collins. http://www.otterbox.com/

Couldn't find any railroad parts, but I did find a super cool oil and electric lantern guy http://www.lanternnet.com/
Nix on the cell phone and tv, but there are a lot of kids toys http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/toysngames.html still made here. They may not be the licensed Disney brand, but they look fun to me. http://www.madeinusa.org/nav.cgi?data%2Ftoys

http://www.allamericanclothing.com/SFNT.html claims to have all made in America clothing. I haven't checked them out completely myself. I hope they don't mean American continent, but they might be legit.

This American made vending machine looks pretty sturdy http://www.hanna-vending.com/routemaster.htm

Couldn't find any minivans, but these articles were interesting - http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2007-03-21-car-content-chart_N.htm and http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1047867_so-what-exactly-is-an-american-made-car-you-may-be-surprised I saw a Tesla driving down the street here last weekend, it was really fast and quite.

And, who really needs dress shirts anyway? http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/men.html

There are a whole bunch of interesting steel articles on this page http://www.steel.org/ Lots of China discussions. I'll have to come back to that later.

There are still some American made Chucks floating around. They're just really expensive, collector items http://chucksconnection.com/usa.html Same with the Etch a Sketch

There are a whole bunch of American made baby food companies http://www.organicconsumers.org/state/greenbiz.cfm?all=OrganicBabyFood Sorry, none in NM :-(

Again, it may not have the Rawlings brand, but it's still an American made baseball http://www.howtobuyamerican.com/bamw/bamw-051112-toys.shtml