Shane, GERN (always all caps, as it's an acronym, created after the fact, for Gibson's Extraordinary Remedial Naturalized)...plus Flux, which is the basis for all GERN products. Here's one of the older adds...
It's a bit of a goofy product dating from the mid-'50s when my brother and I played table hockey. We each had several teams, with all players assigned names. We also kept scoring and goaltending records, held play-offs, etc., etc.
One of his star players was named Cookie Gibson (later known as Charles "Cookie" Gibson, who, according to my younger and more inventive brother, was a "flux magnate".As we grew-up (sorta) the table hockey was forgotten. However, when I began to build my current layout, I decided that a GERN factory of some sort would be a good traffic generator, and it's certainly lived up to that requirement...
He responded with ads for various GERN products, and continues to crank them out as they come to his fertile (or perhaps fertilised) mind. There are currently over fifty GERN modellers/modelers world-wide, and I send out the new ads to them as my brother creates them.
Wayne
If I am not wrong, GERN is the NASDAQ code for the Geron Corporation, a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company.
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
It is a popular industry. I'll leave the complete Gern story to it's founder, and creator, the esteemed Dr. Wayne.
Mike.
My You Tube
I do appologize if i missed the story, but what is the Gern company? Seams to be everywhere here
shane
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