Ronco Inventions, LLC

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Ron " Ronco " Popeil is one of America's unique inventors. Over the past 40 years, his products have pulled in more than $2 billion in sales. Ron was voted by Self Magazine readers as one of the 25 people who have changed the way we eat, drink and think about food. And, he's still going strong. One of his latest inventions, the Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ, is selling by the thousands every week. It wasn't always this way, however. Like many a self-made man, Ron Popeil didn't have a normal childhood, at least not the kind of childhood enjoyed by a lot of us. In fact, he says, he has blotted most of it from his memory.Born in 1935, Ron and his 17-month older brother, Jerry, were shuffled off to a foster home in upstate New York between the ages of three and four when his parents were divorced. Ron remembers Christmas time when other parents arrived at the foster home to pick up their children for the holidays. Ron would stand in the middle of the street and look down what seemed to be an endless road waiting to see his mother or father's car approach. It never did.Before he was seven, his grandparents rescued Ron and his brother from the foster home and took them to their aunt's home in Florida for about 2½ years. But it was a case of "out of the frying pan and into the fire." His grandfather, a Polish immigrant, was dour and sour without any redeeming human qualities. At the age of 10, Ron's grandparents moved to Chicago and he and his brother moved with them. Six years later, Ron would move and go on his own.

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