Sydney Cash talks about Manhattan glass company Leo Popper. Oral history interview with Sydney Cash, March 22, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 02:01.

Sydney Cash: Just know, there was no community there [in Manhattan in the 1960s and early 1970s]. There was a guy in the building behind me; his name was Richard Krasner. He was working with glass. He was cutting [clears throat] flat pieces into shapes and gluing together forms, and he was also showing with Ivan Karp. So we had some communication and we played ping-pong a lot. And so he was the only other guy I really knew that was working with glass, although there were some glass places in Tribeca. There was a place called Leo Popper which was a glass—they imported glass, they sold stained glass, they were—they have been there for over a hundred years, I think. And they ended up going out of business the year before stained glass became this American hobby, popular thing. So when they went out of business, I bought a lot of stuff—strange things they wanted to get rid of, they were throwing away container after container of really interesting glass and I—my studio’s only three blocks away, so I would have this cart, there’s something I would bring, I would fish out of the dumpster. And also then Bendheim was close in there, that area, that time too. But there was somebody in the Village who was making clothing that—covering it with jewels that he got from Leo Popper. Leo Popper, they were selling buttons, jewels, all kinds of—they had facilities to make those things too in the back. I don’t think they were being used when I was there, but it was very old-school and very cool.