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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeremy Lopez, post: 11548409, member: 89807&quot;]Baker knew a lot of people in the publishing world - a pretty small world at the time, and he was a sociable, ambitious, well connected guy. I expect he got in touch with someone he knew at Time and the NYer (there&#039;s an ad there too) and said &quot;I&#039;ve designed this bar cart like I saw when I was recently in Shanghai.&quot; &quot;What do you call it?&quot; the other said. &quot;The Baker Bar-ette!&quot; Baker said, and that&#039;s what his friend wrote down. But if the thing was being sold at Ovington&#039;s and Saks and at dept. stores in Chicago and LA there was no reason they would&#039;ve called it that. So he got a little personal publicity on the front end, but the more important thing was to have it available nationally, both in stores (where it probably retailed for $175) and through the magazine shopping service (special price of $125).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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