A Green Can Opener Sold in 1977 Opened the World to Home Shopping

An avocado green can electric opener sold on the radio in Clearwater Florida in 1977 was the birth of at-home shopping. I was dumbfounded when I learned this fact at my first class of "How to Sell on TV" taught in St Petersburg, Florida by Bob Circosta at his corporate headquarters near the HSN campus. Bob was the man who sold that first green can opener! I was in the middle of my second year of selling my French dresses on HSN TV and about to launch my first fragrance, "21 Bonaparte" (a sedativ...