Word: zambelli
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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...Computer?" he scoffs, dozens of folders at his feet, on his desk, on chairs. Fireworks shows are electronically fired nowadays, but for filing and accounting, Zambelli lives comfortably in the past. He taps his head with a finger. There's your computer...
...chef prepare his meals in the abandoned restaurant of the converted hotel that is headquarters for Zambelli Fireworks Internationale. That way, he doesn't waste time going across the street. Especially not with the millennium only 18 months away and the orders already coming in from around the world...
There's only one time when Boom-Boom relaxes. At Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium in May, Zambelli Internationale put on a gargantuan show that had George fidgeting all week in anticipation. "You're dealing with explosives," he said. "It's like a battlefield. Anything can happen...
Boom-Boom Zambelli rolled firecracker tubes when he was 7 and was a fireworks shooter at 16. When he graduated from college in 1947, Antonio said to him, Son, it's yours. "I guess he assumed I knew it was a family business and that family comes first. He didn't have to say anything else." George Sr.'s brother-in-law was killed in a fireworks-assembly accident in 1950, but they barely stopped for a funeral. The danger is always there, he says. That's why you respect the material, and that's why you go after...
...other New Castle fireworks companies have folded. Zambelli is in an elite group of "the country's foremost players," according to John Conkling of the American Pyrotechnics Association. How elite? Zambelli did the Statue of Liberty celebration in 1986. It did four presidential inaugurations, the Desert Storm troop return, the Pope in Toronto and, perhaps most important, the Elvis Presley stamp unveiling...