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Article: Business booming for personal bobbleheads.(Business)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- December 27, 2006
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Byline: Mike Wilson, Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Ralph Trumbo is neither an athlete nor a celebrity. Nevertheless, he has a bobblehead likeness of himself sitting on his mantel.
Bobbleheads, those shaky-headed 3-D caricatures, have jiggled free of their mass-produced roots of an earlier generation. Once merely featureless figures decked out in team colors and handed out on game day, they now depict just about anyone who wants one.
Even Trumbo, a Des Moines letter carrier.
"It's really cool," he said. "I take it to work and they say, 'It's you.' It looks just like me."
Trumbo's bobblehead was sculpted by Bryan Guise, ...