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Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural: Nilus Orth – Atom Pop

Remember the sound of popcorn popping on a stovetop? Today we’ll meet a Kansas manufacturing company that is continuing the tradition of stovetop popcorn poppers and bringing it into the modern era.

Nilus Orth and his brothers are owners of Bushton Manufacturing and QuinCraft Products which produce the Atom Pop popcorn popper today. This product goes back to the 1950s, when a man named Edwin Lewis started a business in the rural community of Quincy, Kansas. Quincy township today has a population of 136 people. Now, that’s rural.

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