I knew them as Jerryco in my childhood:

> And the business was launched as American Lens & Photo.

> After the Second World War the company expanded, fed by war surplus. Eventually, Al opened a retail store on Chicago's Northwest side called American Science Center and started carrying educational science items.

> (...) In 1979 he started a catalog operation under the name "Jerryco" and in 1981 he opened a second store, in Milwaukee.