How to Remove the Cotton from a Bottle of Aspirin by Rube Goldberg

According to the San Francisco Call, Rube purchased a lot on the southeast corner of Oak and Gough Streets from Johanna F.

He was a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle and The Bulletin, eventually leaving San Francisco for New York and success as one of America's greatest humorists.īut Rube always remembered his roots. Marzio, Rube Goldberg: His Life and Work). Woodward, the Engineer for the City of San Francisco, where he 'mapped sewer pipes and water mains.' (Peter C. After graduation he was hired by Thomas P. Rube graduated from Lowell High School in 1900, and the University of California, Berkeley in 1904 with a degree in Mining and Engineering (he cartooned for the Pelican while a student there).

Reuben Lucius Goldberg was born in San Francisco on Jto Max and Hannah Goldberg. The article announced an open house at 194 Gough Street in Hayes Valley, the flat where Reuben Lucius Goldberg (1883-1970), aka Rube Goldberg-contraption king, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist (creator of comic strip characters Bobo Baxter, Boob McNutt, Mike and Ike, Professor Butts, and Lala Palooza), author of such notable works as Foolish Questions, How to Remove Cotton from a Bottle of Aspirin, The Rube Goldberg Plan for the Post-War World, and sometime sewer worker-once hung his hat while visiting his father Max in the city. The email arrived at 3:30pm on Thursday afternoon: 'Go see this today!' The message included a link to a short piece from the San Francisco Chronicle and a video.

How to Remove the Cotton from a Bottle of Aspirin by Rube Goldberg