During the early mid 1950's, as a child, Mr. Blasco would watch a Television show which was shown in Pittsburgh featuring a ventriloquist Hank Stohl. Mr. Stohl's puppet was a small mop, which had protruding from its mop-hair, a nose, which was an old fashioned sock darning tool, If you are not familiar with this particular tool, it can be described as a very small bowling pin-type of apparatus. There weren't very many fantasy type shows on local Pittsburgh TV and Mr. Blasco was fascinated with Mr. Stohl's ability to give this obvious mop, "Real life". One day Mr. Stohl appeared on a local talk show with his puppet and very much to Mr. Blasco's dismay proceeded to dismantle the puppet and reveal the simplicity of his mop and darning tool design, The young Joe Blasco was dismayed with Mr. Stohl's actions and the fact that many very young children were probably disillusioned by discovering that the puppet was, "Not real". So, the angry young Joe Blasco wrote a letter to Mr. Stohl telling him of his unhappiness with the situation and requested an apology for having treated the puppet so disrespectfully. A couple weeks later, the ten-year-old Joe Blasco received a letter from Mr. Stohl apologizing for having turned the puppet inside out for everyone to see. He said that the puppet didn't really care for the situation either. He promised that it would never happen again. That same letter is now hanging in Mr. Blasco's Orlando Make-up Center Museum as part of a collection which shows the many detailed and interesting aspects of Mr. Blasco's interest in show business and fantasy, It is this kind of interest that dreams are built upon. The name of the puppet was, "Knish".

Mr. Blasco proudly photographed with the company's new cruelty free mascot, "Knish".