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Karl Johnson writes:
Mr. Kruger came to the U.S. in 1932 to travel the country
and cut silhouettes at variouse events including the Chicago World's
Fair, the Dallas World's Fair, and both New York World's Fairs. He
later settled at an amusement park near Chicago called Riverview Park.
An apartment building now stands on the sight. He then moved to
California to work as a silhouete artist at a relatively new attraction
called Disneyland. His friend, also a silhouette artist, Alex Degonzlar
had started the consession there when the park opened in the middle
50's. He was an immigrant from Poland. By the way, Disneyland still
has a silhouette studio on Main Street to this day. It was here that
Paul Kruger cut Gloria Swansen's portrait. One very interesting story is about a young man named Jess Rubio
who started his carreer at Disneyland as a street sweeper. Although not
an artist himself, he used to come by the studio and talk with all the
artists. He later moved up in management and eventually aquired the
artist consession for himself. He would simply hire silhouette artists
to work for him and pay them a small commission. He then aquired the
artist consession at DisneyWorld in Florida and now is quite wealthy.
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