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The Woman Who Saved San Francisco’s Cable Cars
City Hall called them costly relics and planned to replace them with buses. Friedel Klussmann turned a piece of Victorian machinery into a public cause—and gave San Francisco the power to keep its past moving.
The Gift Shop That Funds a Mountain
For nearly a century, a small South Dakota nonprofit has turned souvenirs, memberships and private gifts into the invisible infrastructure of Mount Rushmore - from ranger talks to a $17 million parking garage.
Sam Pardue Built a Climate Business From a Flickering Candle
A draft moved the candles in his 1906 Portland house. The fix led from a failed magnetic prototype to a patented insert, a precision-measurement system, and a company built around keeping good windows in place.
The $30-a-Foot Fix for People Who Hate Their Windows - but Refuse to Rip Them Out
Indow built a climate-tech business around an unglamorous idea: keep the old window, measure it obsessively, and press a precisely cut acrylic panel into place. The first magnetic prototype failed. The stripped-down version became the product.
How a Florida Archaeology Firm Became Big Energy's First Phone Call
SEARCH turned a federal compliance requirement into the largest cultural-resources firm in America - and helped find Shackleton's Endurance along the way.
Biltmore
America's largest privately owned home survives because the family behind it built a business around the visit - then kept finding reasons for guests to stay, dine, drink, shop and return.